It’s not going to stop, especially the more UNLV wins football games.

Dan Mullen’s name is going to come up when coaching jobs open across the country.

It happened again this week when Mullen was included on lists of potential candidates to replace the fired James Franklin at Penn State.

Franklin was let go six games into his 12th season at the helm of the Nittany Lions, despite leading them to the College Football Playoff semifinals in January.

For his part, Mullen has again pledged his commitment to UNLV, just like he did after UCLA and Virginia Tech fired their coaches in September .

“I’ll be here,” Mullen said. “I’m going to be the head coach at UNLV next year. I’m not going anywhere. I told the players, ‘Good or bad, it’s the transfer portal world. Don’t get all excited thinking

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