Mullen has lost one game to a non-Power 5 team, which was Houston, a very respectable team and favorite in the game and it was also only Mullen's 6th game as a head coach. USM might be improved, if you consider a ceiling of 6-6 in the CUSA improvement. We would beat them, handily, with our 2nd team offense playing the whole game. Croom's teams would've beaten this USM team handily. It's sad that they got stuck in a state of 2 million with 2 SEC West teams, they will never be relevant again unless they can get into a P5 conference.