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Couldn't be more thrilled to have Coach Dan Mullen join us here on this show, and we are very appreciative of your time, Coach.

It's Thanksgiving week, which means it is Egg Bowl Week.

When I think back to your first press conference at Mississippi State, when I think back to

your first days there, you made a big deal of the Egg Bowl. You knew that that was something

Mississippi State fans would rally behind. And it just makes me wonder, you know, coming in,

you'd done some of that at Florida with Florida State. Was that something that was just on your

checklist of things to do? Like, we're going to emphasize this robbery and make it the most important game on the schedule?

Yeah, the rivalry games are critical, right?

Of college football.

And really, programs, it's really important.

The fans, and one of the most important things is not everybody in the program always understands it.

A lot of the players, some of them didn't grow up around it or maybe from different areas.

So I was thought that coming in and you make sure that everybody within your program

understand how important those games are.

And I've always believed that.

I learned that early as an assistant coach at a lot of our stops.

You know, I mean, at Notre Dame, USC was a big rival.

Bowling Green Toledo is a big rival.

Obviously, Florida has a couple of different rivals,

and then the Egg Bowl, the Mississippi State, Old

Miss game is such a big game, that you always want to make such an important deal out of it,

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