TAMPA, Fla. — When Lane Kiffin looks back on his controversial move from Ole Miss to LSU, he views it as a major positive — not just for him.“In a lot of ways, a lot of people won,” Kiffin said Thursday during SEC media days. “A lot of coaches either stayed or came. They were able to keep Pete Golding as the head coach. … Players got a lot of really big contracts at both places. Assistant coaches did. Both places are talked about a lot as premier programs heading into next year.”Golding made pretty much the same point Wednesday, which means Kiffin’s argument isn’t merely an attempt to spin a lightning-rod moment into an all-around victory. It also leads to an obvious question.Nearly eight months after one of the wildest coaching moves in recent memory, who are the winners and losers from the butterfly effect Kiffin kicked off by leaving Oxford for Baton Rouge? Here’s our attempt at ranking them, from biggest winners to biggest losers (with one in the middle):WinnersPete Golding: Golding, who spent three years as Kiffin’s defensive coordinator, said he “really wasn’t looking” to become a head coach. It’s hard to think of a better, unexpected first opportunity than taking over a Playoff team at age 41. The fact that his starting quarterback, Trinidad Chambliss, is ranked the best in the country by The Athletic makes things even better.Lane Kiffin: Aside from the $4 million raise he earned by changing jobs within the conference, Kiffin went from a program that’s traditionally in the bottom half of the SEC to one that has won three national titles this century under three different coaches. He took over arguably the best job in the nation, and any ceiling he had at Ole Miss doesn’t exist at LSU.LSU: Brian Kelly never fit at LSU and was never going to, either. But if you’re going to fire a coach for going 34-14, you better get it right. Kiffin was the biggest name on the carousel with the highest floor and ceiling, and he brought the nation’s top transfer class to the Tigers. Although there’s no guarantee Kiffin will win big, he has given the program hope.Coaches from the American: Kiffin picking LSU provided bigger opportunities for the top Group of 6 coaches. One feasible scenario from November had Tulane’s Jon Sumrall going to Auburn and South Florida’s Alex Golesh slotting into Arkansas. Instead, Kiffin’s decision kept the Florida job open, allowing Sumrall to join the Gators and Golesh to end up at Auburn. The domino effect sent Memphis’ Ryan Silverfield to Arkansas. All three (arguably) got better jobs than they otherwise might have.Top transfers/tampering targets: Player salaries are generally kept secret, but we can safely say that, as Kiffin said, many of them got raises to stay or leave. If Ole Miss is considering suing Princewill Umanmielen and Devin Harper over unpaid buyouts after they followed Kiffin to LSU, we can assume they were highly compensated for the move. LSU signed our No. 1 transfer class, including Arizona State quarterback Sam Leavitt, and the ripple effects hit the market as a whole. We’ll come back to that, but here’s one downstream effect: As Golesh leveled up to Auburn, the 13 players he brought with him from USF leveled up, too. Quarterback Byrum Brown and his teammates probably weren’t taking pay cuts to go from the American to the SEC.The media: For some unknown reason, many people apparently have a lot of thoughts and big feelings about Kiffin. That means the will-he-won’t-he drama was, admittedly, good for business if you write and talk about college football for a living. Even Vanity Fair got on board, giving the publication a very different audience than usual. The intrigue hasn’t left; SEC Network had a countdown clock Thursday until Kiffin took the media stage. Anticipation is only going to build heading into Kiffin’s return to Ole Miss with LSU on Sept. 19.