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Aggy still gets to hold rights to the gay one.

The Drill Field and Parade Grounds return!

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced new Pentagon partnerships with five non-Ivy League colleges and universities Wednesday amid his ongoing efforts to distance the military from America’s most prestigious higher education institutions.

“We’re partnering with a new crop of premier higher ed institutions, including Louisiana State University [LSU], Liberty University, Tuskegee University, Mississippi State University and Hillsdale College,” Hegseth said during a speech Wednesday in Quantico, Va.

My daughter went there, got a great education.

Its probably the only P4 school in the SEC footprint that students had to be be bribed to go to games. Free chicken biscuits, t-shirts for every game, etc.

The student body just does not care about athletics. They do have an interesting "ratio" though,.As my daughter and her friends always said - "The odds are good, but the goods are odd."

8-4.

Next years schedule is more manageable for bigger things.

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Why does the SEC make an exception about artificial noise makers for just this one team ?

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I do know the answer.

Up until 1974, it didn't matter. State was not a competitive team and no one cared. State beat Auburn and Shug Jordan complained to the SEC and had them banned.

They were officially banned but again, State was not competitive so it did not matter. During the late 90s, State had a pretty good 4 year run where they won 4 of 5 from Alabama and 4 straight against Auburn. Ended up in the SEC title game one season and had a 10-win season another.

The Alabama schools could not handle that, so in 2002, they bitched again and for the first time, there was a cowbell penalty (15 yards). Refs pretty much ignored it, but there was a game or two where the crowd was assessed penalties and they started taking them up at the gate. This pissed State fans off, plus we had the Croom era of incompetence, so people stopped coming to games.

We got a new athletic director, Greg Byrne (ironically now at Alabama), who pushed for the "Cowbell Compromise" when Mullen was hired. That's where we are now.

Synopsis:

Auburn got beat and butthurt and complained. State went back to sucking.
Alabama and Auburn got beat and butthurt and complained. State went back to sucking.
Greg Byrne pushed for a Compromise and the SEC athletic directors voted to allow them. Now its just fans on message boards that complain.

The Cowbell Compromise basically says State can ring them but when the center touches the ball they have to stop. Although there is not 100% compliance, its pretty good and it was solid Saturday night. B+ compliance. Officially as part of the SEC rule, State has to display messages and reminders to "Rest Your Bell, Just Yell" so we have a PSA before the game, and there are messages on the video board throughout the game. State is in compliance.

The only game I ever attended where it was ignored was last year against Arizona State. They gave those boys from the desert hell because they made fun of it before the game.

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I was sitting in Davis Wade Stadium this past Saturday night (visiting my kid who attends MSU), As loud as that place was this past weekend I can't imagine how loud it will be this upcoming Saturday..

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If this were a night game, I think State might have a crowd that could rattle Alabama a little. Saturday night against Missouri was one of the loudest crowds I remember at DWS.

The 11 am ABC game will be good for exposure, but the crowd will be tamer.

Alabama 34, Mississippi State 24 with Alabama driving about 8 minutes in the fourth quarter to put it away.

You know that State has a decent team when opposing fans start bitching about the cowbells.

So this season has been

Yeah, your QB looked good but it was Louisiana-Monroe.
Yeah, you destroyed a B1G team in their house but it was Minnesota.
Yeah, you won a road SEC game but it was against South Carolina
Yeah, you beat a top 20 Missouri team but cowbells

Right on cue.

Smart. Tulsa has a decent shot at the G6 bid if they win.

With a win already at Oklahoma State, a win at Arkansas would give Tulsa two Power 4 wins. Tulane did that last year (Northwestern and Duke) and made the playoff.

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It’s going to be tough. You just need to hope that some team like Oregon or Ohio State doesn’t have a situation where their team is stacked except at quarterback. If a program of that caliber considers him to be the missing link to a national championship…..you’ll see them throw out record breaking numbers.

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Oh, I'm aware. But its Week 4 of the 2026 season and we are talking about what schools will pay a 19 year old kid more money for the 2027 season. Its not fair to anyone at this point to speculate.

I'm confident that there is as much of a chance that he stays at State as there is he transfers. He'll be a high draft prospect in the 2028 draft. The highest paid QB in the NFL went to State - he can finish here as well.

Mississippi State has a decent chance of starting 5-0. They are ranked 24th, but some of the computer models already have them in the top 15 and as high as the top 10.

If they do so, they will have Auburn, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt and Tennessee Tech at home - all very winnable games.

That means they would be one road upset - at LSU, at Texas, at Ole Miss from being 10-2 and in the College Football Playoff.

You could make an argument that they could go 9-3 and be in contention for a playoff bid if they get one of the road games.

Ole Miss looks like a Playoff team already. I'd argue that this week at Florida is their game that could put them solidly in the playoff if they win.

Is the SEC Rant, College football, and the World at large ready for an Egg Bowl between two teams that could make the CFP?

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MSU the only school with someone in the top 5 of all 3 lists. Just like everyone predicted.

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State has some talent on offense. Defense is playing significantly better than last two seasons as well.

Hopeful for a winning season.