Spending Christmas at the Omni Hotel is nice, but it isn’t home for the more than 100 players, coaches and staffers that the University of Florida brought to Atlanta for the Peach Bowl. Dan Mullen tried to make things more like home by bringing the family dog, Heisman, along with him.
Heisman was in tow on Christmas Eve when Mullen met reporters for his first press conference since arriving in Atlanta.
“Christmas is Christmas Day, but it’s also Tuesday on a game week. We’ll try to do a great job of separating the two,” Mullen said. “We’ll walk out early in the morning and we’ll have a whole big Christmas celebration.