Lane Kiffin can attract attention, but can he land signature wins? Not so much says Dan Wolken of USA Today in his weekly “Misery Index.”

“Lane Kiffin has been a college coach for 134 games,” Wolken wrote. “When’s the last one that left you saying, “Man, that’s an incredible win. I don’t know how he pulled that one off?”

He identified a 2011 win for Southern Cal — in the middle of a postseason ban — at Oregon. After that, “It was at the end of the 2020 season when Ole Miss beat No. 8 Indiana in the Outback Bowl. Indiana, folks. Indiana.”

Wolken’s conclusion is that Kiffin beats most of the teams he’s supposed to beat, but “basically never delivers the kind of program-changing or even credibility-building victory that most coaches need to get even a fraction of the publicity he does.”

Wolken explains that the Misery Index is meant to dive into the psyche of people, and figure out who hates their entire existence because of a college football game in a particular week.

“Ole Miss fans often live in this territory because of the school’s status as one of those programs that can occasionally tease greatness only to be smacked back to reality by one of the SEC’s bluebloods,” Wolken wrote. “You kind of get used to it after awhile. But this time, against arguably the weakest Alabama team of the last decade, Ole Miss fans could have rightfully believed they could win this game.”