Florida coach Dan Mullen suffered a tremendous loss to LSU on Saturday, and that game will be remembered for one of his decisions leading up to the game.

SEC Network host Paul Finebaum said on Monday on “The Roundtable” on WJOX 94.5 in Birmingham, Alabama that the key decision was to not play star TE Kyle Pitts. Finebaum and the co-hosts also discussed Mullen having similar games like this at Mississippi State.

“If you’re saving Kyle Pitts for the SEC Championship, you made a big mistake,” Finebaum said. “I don’t know exactly what went into that decision but it was a tough look. It’s always easy to blame the head coach, but that’s who gets the biggest amount of dollars here. It was a familiar theme. It was a devastating loss. Of all the games we’ve watched this season over 15 weeks, I would dare say it was the most significant loss because they did not have the easiest path to the Playoff, but they had a clear shot. You win one game and you’re in and now that’s not going to happen.”

It will be a tough loss to move past going forward, even though it doesn’t change the overall feeling of Mullen as a coach, he said.

“It will haunt Dan Mullen to some degree because we saw things in that game that are eerily familiar with his past,” Finebaum said. “Having said all that, he’s still a great coach, he’s had an amazing year, but that one will haunt him in the offseason.”