No coach in college football can eat wings like Mississippi State’s Dan Mullen, who defended his regional title belt – Starkville, Miss., chapter – by downing 15 wings in three minutes Monday night at the local Buffalo Wild Wings.

Unfortunately, the 15 wings Mullen downed during a brief intermission to his radio show marks a slight decline from last year’s 24-wing total. (Somewhat fitting, as Mississippi State has gone from 8-5 last season to 4-6 heading into the final two games of the year.)

Via Mike Bonner, who covers the Bulldogs for The Clarion-Ledger:

His approach is pretty simple: Mullen goes with the put-the-whole-wing-in-my-mouth-and-pull style, which seems to serve him well.

After last year’s contest, Mullen threw down the gauntlet to any potential competition – bring it, basically:

“We’ll keep this challenge out there for the years to come, hopefully,” Mullen said. “Every once in a while we’ll do this challenge and I’m going to hopefully keep my title as wing eating champion. … Not that I’m competitive or anything.”

And I think this gentleman has a good point: