- Winning record in bowls
- Big 6 bowl appearance
- 7 year win streak vs. Kentucky
- Overall winning record vs. Kentucky (22-20), moving us a little bit further off the bottom
- 4 game win streak over Arkansas, after a decade of futility in that series
- 2 game win streak over Auburn
- Got Ws over Georgia and Tennessee, neither of which are normal for MSU
- Beat Florida at the Swamp
- Winning record in Egg Bowl, after weathering their greatest peak ever
- Near perfect record in games where we are favored

There are some things that need work, for sure. I do not count the bowl streak in my assessments, because to me, in an 11-game season, we'd have been 5-6 in 2011 and 2013 (all the 12 game season added was an FCS patsy). We obviously need to beat Alabama, but Alabama is also 84-10 since Mullen has been at State, with 3 national titles and 3 SEC titles. Only a peaking South Carolina/Ole Miss/Texas A&M, LSU, Auburn, Oklahoma and Ohio State have defeated them in that time frame.

Average Mullen FBS record in this time-span: 6.3-4.7 (for reference, King Jackie was 5.7-5.0-0.3)

What this tells me, is that while we have not been elite, we've been better than we've ever been. I personally like the slow, gradual trend rather than the extreme highs/lows like Ole Miss has employed (and King Jackie too), ESPECIALLY when we accomplish more and have higher win totals.

Guy gets 2 more years regardless, as long as we don't totally collapse next year. He's earned the right to build the program his way, OL coach and all.