Dan Mullen has spent many years coaching in the SEC, going all the way back to 2005, when he became the offensive coordinator at Florida.

After that 4-year stint at Gainesville, there was a 9-year run as head coach at Mississippi State and then a 2nd 4-year stint at Florida, this time as the head coach. Now, there are rumors that the 50-year-old Mullen is heading back to the SEC to be Shane Beamer’s offensive coordinator at South Carolina.

Rumors that Mullen kindly shot down on Tuesday morning while joining Chris Childers, a Sirius XM host of Full Ride on ESPNU Radio, and Rick Neuheisel.

Mullen had spent the previous 17 years coaching in the SEC since starting that 1st run as Florida’s offensive coordinator, and this fall joined ESPN as a college football analyst.

He went 69-46 during those 9 seasons in Starkville, finishing with a winning record in all but 2 of those seasons. Mullen’s time as head coach at Florida started out very well, with double-digit-win seasons in 2018 and 2019 before an 8-4 campaign in the shortened 2020 season.

Then it all went downhill for Mullen last year, when he was fired after an overtime loss to Missouri that left the Gators at 5-6. He didn’t even make it to the Florida State rivalry game.

Now, apparently, he won’t be making the journey to Columbia to run the Gamecocks’ offense.