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By Tyler Erzberger
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Love him, hate him, it doesn't matter.
Lane Kiffin makes things happen.
After already securing the best transfer portal crop in college football history, the new LSU Tigers head coach somehow one-upped himself on Friday night by securing his third five-star player of the window.
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To put that into context, no other program has more than one.
Kiffin got three.
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And it is a massive addition to the newly revamped Tigers offense in the form of former Colorado Buffalo offensive lineman Jordan Seaton. Not only is he a five-star, but Seaton is one of the best pass-blocking linemen in the entire country as a sophomore.
He is now added to a Tigers attack that is loaded with former College Football Playoff quarterfinalist Sam Leavitt at quarterback, with another young former five-star, Husan Longstreet, backing him up.
This comes days after people thought Kiffin had pulled off his biggest get of the offseason, stealing away Ole Miss's five-star and sacks leader Princewill Umanmielen. Instead, it was only the first shoe to drop, with Seaton being the other, coming over from Deion Sanders and Boulder.
Kiffin entered the transfer portal, saying he was going all-out, and with the backing of LSU boosters and their NIL funds, he wasn't denied.
From flying across state lines to lock down Leavitt, to swiping Umanmielen from Pete Golding and his former program Ole Miss, to then landing the biggest piece still on the market, it has been cinematic three weeks for Kiffin at the beginning of his tenure in Baton Rouge.
Before the portal opened, LSU was regarded as a team that could be ranked and had an outside shot of challenging for the SEC with some crucial pickups.
Now? It's hard to argue that LSU isn't one of the leading contenders for the conference and a team that could challenge for the College Football Playoff national championship if the team gels over the next few months leading into the campaign.
Kiffin has talked a lot on social media and television over the past few weeks, appearing everywhere and anywhere college football is discussed.
And somehow, someway, he backed it all up.
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