Kiffin after bowl win: FAU 'just getting started'

Lane Kiffin emphatically closed his first season at Florida Atlantic on Tuesday night with a dominant 50-3 bowl victory over Akron, then proclaimed afterward, "We're just getting started."

The win in the Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl, on the same FAU Stadium field where the Owls play during the regular season, came hours after Kiffin agreed to an extension that will keep him at the school through 2027.

Rewind to a year ago, when FAU took a chance on hiring Kiffin, who had failed in three previous jobs as a head coach. Nobody could have expected the season would play out the way it did: FAU won 11 games (its school record in FBS), captured the Conference USA championship and made its…