Dan Mullen is in his third season as Florida’s head coach.
Mullen is 29-6 through 35 games as the Gators’ head coach.
Florida won the SEC East championship with a 31-19 victory over Tennessee at Neyland Stadium Saturday.
Following Florida’s win against the Vols, Mullen discussed winning the SEC East and where his program is three years into his tenure.
“It shows you where the program is at, right?,” Mullen said. “When it’s 31-7 when cleanup time starts, and we just kind of clean up the game and finish it out, and you say that’s not a very good game by us or not one of our great performances, that shows you where we’re at as a program, which says a lot.
“I’m really proud of our guys. I’m really proud of how we played. We played a great defensive game. You know, we’ve got to finish it there when we get into the cleanup time at the end of the game. We started subbing guys in, and they’ve got to come in and slam the door and not give up the two garbage time touchdowns that they scored at the end, but, overall, I’m pretty pleased with how we played for the day.”
Tennessee scored 12 points in the fourth quarter against Florida.
Vols’ running back Ty Chandler scored on a 7-yard carry with 5:33 remaining in the contest. J.T. Shrout connected with Velus Jones Jr. for a 22-yard pass with 27 seconds left in the fourth quarter.
“Some mistakes, some things we’ve got to get cleaned up, but winning the SEC East championship in this year, the hardest year in the history of this league where we’re going to play 10 regular-season conference games, to win our division is pretty special and shows a lot of what our teams is about and where our whole coaching staff is at.” — Florida head coach Dan Mullen
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