Dan Mullen will be a studio analyst for ESPN this fall

A familiar face will be part of ESPN’s college football coverage this season. Former Florida and Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen is taking on the role of studio analyst for the Worldwide Leader this fall. He will sit alongside anchor Kevin Connors and analyst Sam Acho on the ESPN2 desk every Saturday in addition to ESPN studio wraps on Thursday and Friday nights.

Mullen has served as a guest analyst on ESPN and the SEC Network from time to time over the past few years, including at last year’s SEC Championship Game and the past two College Football Playoff National Championships. He spent four seasons at Florida (34-15) and nine (69-46) at Mississippi State, putting together a combined record of 103-61. Of course, two of those losses during his tenure at Florida were to Kentucky, making him the first Gators head coach to lose to the Cats twice since Doug Dickey in 1977-78. Kentucky’s 20-13 victory last season was the Cats’ first at home over Florida since 1986. Mullen was fired a month and a half later following the Gators’ loss to Missouri, their sixth of the season.

Since then, Mullen has mostly laid low but did agree to be a “contributing resource” to the Lake Oconee Academy (Ga.) high school football team in May. No word on if his new gig will conflict with that, or if he’ll break out a light saber in the studio: