WATCH: $14 million worth Lane Kiffin and ex-wife Layla celebrate daughter Landry's special day together

The Ole Miss Rebels, under coach Lane Kiffin, were among the preseason favorites to qualify for the expanded College Football Playoff. However, they barely missed out after being ranked No. 14 in the last rankings on Selection Sunday. The Rebels finished the season 9-3 after some poor losses and, despite Kiffin's repeated lobbying, missed out on college football's biggest showpiece.

Off the gridiron, the Ole Miss coach and his ex-wife, Layla Kiffin, gathered to celebrate their daughter Landry Kiffin's birthday, showcased in a clip posted on the coach's Instagram story on Friday.

The clip shows Landry dressed in pink and surrounded by her family as she blows out the candles on her birthday cake.

Lane Kiffin admits that Landry convinced him to stay at Ole Miss

In 2021, Lane Kiffin was in demand and in line to switch from the Ole Miss Rebels to the Auburn Tigers after being aggressively courted for the Tigers head coaching job before ultimately deciding to stay in Oxford, and the job went to Hugh Freeze.

After beating coach Kirby Smart's Georgia Bulldogs in Week 12 of college football action, Kiffin and Landry shared a heartwarming embrace on the field. The charismatic coach detailed during his postgame news conference the role that his daughter played in convincing him to stay in Oxford.

“It was a cool moment. … Just for her to hug me and say, ‘Pops would be really proud of you,’" Lane Kiffin said. "It was a special moment. … I was kind of thinking, too, thanking her, a couple of years ago … the Auburn decision, staying here.

"When she had said during that decision process, ‘Hey, I just got here,’ which she came here to live with me and go to Oxford High and then she was coming to Ole Miss. And she said, ‘Don’t leave me now.’ It is just kind of cool how things happened. So, I just thanked her because those moments wouldn’t have happened.”

Landry Kiffin joined Ole Miss this year after graduating high school, and her move changed the wheels of a coaching move that was so close to happening.

Despite the Ole Miss Rebels' season not panning out as expected during preseason, Lane Kiffin has led the team to two consecutive 10-win seasons, an unheard-of feat in Oxford before his arrival. He has also assured Ole Miss fans of his dedication to the program, and with Landry Kiffin's presence in Oxford, he looks set to remain at the institution.