Mi si sippi State coach Dan Mullen wasn't sure his Bulldogs would've made the College Football Playoff even if they had beaten Mi si sippi on Saturday.Well, he sort of thought that, anyway. Mi si sippi State was ranked fourth in this week's College Football Playoff rankings, but Mullen told CBSSports.com, Mullen then talked more about it -- and didn't seem nearly as sure. " Kurt Warner Jersey Maybe a lot of committee members breathed a big sigh of relief," Mullen said, explaining that the members now no longer "have to consider" bumping Mi si sippi State out of the top four had the Bulldogs won. "If we had won ... I think there would have been some really interesting Lamarcus Joyner Jersey conversations that would have shaped the future of the playoff," he said. Had the Bulldogs beaten Ole Mi s and finished 11-1, they would have tied for the SEC West title with Alabama. But the Tide would've won the tiebreaker, thanks to , and gone to the SEC championship game. That Mi si sippi State would've been dismi sed outright by the committee because it didn't win a Merlin Olsen Jersey league title? Well, no one knows now. It is worth noting that the Bulldogs were ranked ahead of three other one-lo s teams in this week's poll: TCU, Ohio State and Baylor. Those three teams had far better chances at winning their respective leagues than did the Bulldogs -- and still the committee had Trumaine Johnson Jersey the Bulldogs ahead of them. Perhaps Mullen said he didn't think the Bulldogs would make the playoff anyway was merely a way to blow off some steam after the lo s. His other comments were more in line with the truth, though, especially that there probably were some committee members who "breathed a big sigh of relief." In addition, a Mi si sippi State win over Ole Mi s certainly would have led to "some really interesting conversations."Too bad they won't happen.Mike Huguenin can be reached at mike.huguenin@nfl.com. You also can Los Angeles Rams Jersey follow him on Twitter .