Mississippi State made it official Wednesday morning, naming Joe Moorhead to take over for Dan Mullen as coach.
The university officially announced that Moorhead, who had been Penn State offensive coordinator the past two seasons, would replace Mullen, who left Sunday after nine years to take the coaching job at Florida.
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This will be Moorhead’s first job in the SEC, although he worked under a former SEC coach in James Franklin while in Happy Valley.
Unlike Mullen, though, who took over a program that had spent most of the preceding decades in the SEC doldrums, Moorhead inherits a Bulldogs team that has steadily built its national profile and has spent much of this season in the national polls.