The only problem: Kiffin hasn't been offered the job, University of Houston Board of Regents chair Tilman Fertitta told Eyewitness News.
The University of Houston tweeted out just before 10:30am this telling message:
Buzz online indicated that the University of Alabama offensive coordinator would lead the Coogs after Tom Herman's departure for the University of Texas.
In a playful gesture, the vice president of athletics at UH, Hunter Yuracheck, teased a photo of black smoke rising in St. Peter's Square in Rome, a symbol known to Catholics to mean a new pope has not been chosen during papal elections.