re: Can you talk me out of thinking Dan Mullen wouldn't be a bad choice?

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here was a short time where he had Mississippi St. as the #1 ranked team in the country

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Go back and look at how that season went. It was complete fools gold. MSU was unranked until they beat a vastly overrated #8 LSU team (his only win ever against Miles); The next week they beat #6 A&M who turned out to also be vastly overrated. He then beat #2 Auburn which was a good win...until AU tanked and went 3-4 the rest of the season.

Basically MSU hit a three game stretch of overrated teams in late Sept/early Oct which catapulted them to #1. They stayed there for a bit by playing nobody until they lost to Bama and Ole Miss in Nov.

2014 MSU was basically 2015 LSU. A team that took advantage of what turned out to be a pretty weak schedule to attain a very high ranking (#2 for LSU) that was really a mirage once the good opponents popped up on the schedule.