DAN MULLEN (Head Coach)
It didn’t take Mullen long to move the Gators back into the nation’s top football programs as, in his first season as head coach last year, Florida finished in the Top 10 in all the major polls with its final 10-3 record. This season Mullen, who was Florida’s offensive coordinator from 2005-08 and then compiled a 69-46 record in his nine years at Mississippi State, has the 6th-ranked Gators at 7-1 (4-1 SEC) entering Saturday’s crucial game with the Bulldogs. And following last season’s 36-17 loss to Georgia, Mullen will surely have Florida highly motivated to topple the Bulldogs and thus take a giant stride toward the SEC East title.