Spurrier had the luxury of only having to deal with Tennessee every year and then Bama in the SECCG….and even 90s Bama was nowhere near current Bama…UGA sucked, LSU sucked, there was no TAMU, and Auburn sucked outside of the Patrick Nix years…..if you want to take the time and effort to compare every single opponents winning percentage, etc go ahead….but I can tell you right now the SEC was nowhere near as brutal for Spurrier as it is now for Mullen….Spurrier had the same 2 obstacles every year…Tenn and FSU…..take this year alone for instance…Mullen will have had played 2 #1 teams in the first 2 months, in addition to the #16 team on the road…..willing to bet that never happened under Spurrier
If we are talking the first 3 and a half years, we did play Bama all 3 of the first years, but somehow, someway, two were in the regular season because the SEC Title game didn't exist. You want to talk about LSU and UGA sucking, while talking about the dangers of UT and FSU, but fail to mention that LSU and UGA for the first two years of Mullen were just as good as those UT and FSU teams in '90 and '91, but that UT and FSU were worse as bad, if not worse than those LSU and UGA teams.
You have to be trolling. Anyways, here are the teams finished ranked in the AP Polls:
1990
W- Auburn (#19)
L-Tenn (#8), FSU (#4)
1991
W- Bama (Bama #5), FSU (#3), Tenn (#14), UGA (#17)
L- Syracuse (#11), Notre Dame (#13)
1992
W- Georgia (#8), NC State (#17)
L- Tenn (#12), Miss State (#23), Florida State (#2), Bama (#1)
7-8 Against Top 25; 2-3 Against Top 5
2018
W- LSU (#6), Michigan (#14)
L- UGA (#7), Kentucky (#12)
2019
W- Auburn (#14)
L- LSU (#1), UGA (#4)
2020
W- UGA (#7)
L- Bama (#1), A&M (#4), Oklahoma (#6)
4-7 Against Top 25; 0-4 Against Top 5
Spurrier had 4 more games against the top 25 through 3 seasons and 3 more wins. Spurrier had also beaten teams that would finish top 5 where Mullen is currently winless. I did reference a .250 winning percentage and I am man enough to say I was wrong. I had mentally added Kentucky and Bama from this year, thought I hadn't and instead of 4-9, I got 4-11. Essentially, I added the 0-2 this year twice by mistake. Instead Dan is about .333 where Spurrier was .467.
Now if we bring in year 4, Mullen is 0-2 if teams ranked stay ranked and a probable 0-3 with UGA dropping him to 4-10. Meanwhile Spurrier, was 3-2 against ranked teams and that would make him 10-10. Numbers don't lie. Spurrier also only had 11 game regular seasons so he didn't get to have 2 FCS games in a season like we did in 2019. There is the argument of the 2020 all-SEC season, but there were many mediocre teams. Spurrier had 4 regular season non-conference games against top 25 finishing teams in his three years. Mullen has had 0. These are not the same.
Most importantly, Spurrier only lost 8 games in his first 3 seasons.
All his losses were to AP top 25 teams at the end of the season. Mullen lost 9 games through his first 3 seasons, two of which were two teams finishing unranked, Mizzou in 2018 and LSU in 2020.
Again, I know you're probably trolling, but still, I have nothing better to do than put this Mullen and Spurrier are basically the same bs to contextual numbers.