IT'S A CLEAR and cool Thursday night in the middle of October in Blacksburg, Virginia, and Dan Mullen is here as a media member, a face of ESPN's college football coverage. He appears on "College Football Final" on Saturdays with host Matt Barrie and analyst Joey Galloway. He is almost three years removed from his head coaching days at Florida.
On Thursday nights, he is Barrie's color analyst and has developed a reputation for taking part in fun, football-adjacent activities -- indulging in different foods with mayo at the Duke's Mayo Bowl, playing flip cup on "SportsCenter" with Larry Fitzgerald at Pitt, and feeding students barbecue at Georgia Tech.