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Nearly There, But Not Quite Enough
Chris Relf was game, but a final M.S.U. drive fell short. Another factoid from Kyle Veazey — a popular guy on this blog in recent days: Mississippi State has now dropped its last 11 SEC openers. The...
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Random Spring Thoughts: Mississippi St.
Using a combination of various computer programs and the Internet — a task nearly beyond my limited computing skills — I selected 25 F.B.S. teams at random. Teams lucky enough to have been randomly...
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The SEC’s Quarterback Crop
I don’t think the argument is about which SEC team has the best quarterback: it’s Georgia and Aaron Murray, and any argument to the contrary — especially with his closest competition out for spring...
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No. 22: Mississippi State
Here’s a new one: now that the Florida ship has sailed, Dan Mullen will be the next coach at Ohio State once that program begins a national search in January. No, that can’t be right. I thought Mullen...
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Surprise! It’s Not 2007 in Starkville
The band was there, the tailgates, the pep rallies and the television trucks, but the team was missing. It’s been missing, when it comes to dates with L.S.U., since 1999: 11 straight losses, by...
View ArticleThree for M.S.U., Three for L.S.U.
Mississippi State is fresh off a loss, but that’s fine: the Bulldogs aren’t making a national title run, and one weekend’s result won’t make or break this team’s hopes. What are those hopes?...
View ArticleCrazy? L.S.U. Goes Calm and Cool
It was crazy, but Les Miles can go crazier. He’ll get crazy over crazy and double-down on crazy, suspending any sense of human logic with a hare-brained scheme straight from a comic book. Onside kick...
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Ten New Commandments for 2011
There are 10 real commandments — you know, the Ten Commandments — and whether you believe or not they still serve as a pretty good set of rules to live by on daily basis. Don’t murder. We can all...
View ArticleMississippi State Wins, Sloppiness and All
There’s making it hard on yourself, then there’s placing yourself directly between a rock and a hard place. Mississippi State should know better: prior to tonight, the Bulldogs had lost seven straight...
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The Year in Review: Mississippi St. (7-6, 2-6)
The expectations were a little high. But could one — and I’m not naming names — be blamed for hopping on board the Mississippi State bandwagon, especially with Dan Mullen holding the reins? This was a...
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