LOS ANGELES — Lane Kiffin is one and done.

Four days after USA Today revealed his confidential vote in the coaches’ poll because the newspaper said he volunteered false or misleading information about his vote in public, USC’s coach relinquished his participation as a voter, he confirmed Monday.

“I apologize if somehow anybody thought I was misleading them,” Kiffin said after practice. “I had no intent of misleading anybody.”

USA Today reported Kiffin’s decision to relinquish his vote after USC informed the news outlet Sunday.

Kiffin’s problems began last week when he responded to a reporter who informed him that Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez had voted the Trojans No. 1. “I would not vote USC No. 1,” Kiffin said. “I can tell you that.”

Kiffin, though, had voted USC No. 1. USA Today revealed his vote, it said, to “protect the poll’s integrity.”