Game week ladies and gentle pigs!

Y’all will win no problem. Lots of medium pass plays over the middle will be the bread and butter for Leach and company.

MSU 41
Hogs 24

I’m honestly more excited for this game than I was last week. Arkansas played like a completely different team last week in the first half before depth caught up with them. Arkabsas has always given state fits other than the last 3 years.

I don’t think we’ll win but hopefully we have a better defensive game plan than LSU. I had a chance to watch their game with State last night and wow was Pelini bad. They manned up the majority of the game and just got burned again and again. Zero chance we could man up all game any ways but hopefully we spend a significant amount of time in a zone and keep the mesh routes contained.

I was just now able to watch the LSU game highlights, and now I'm convinced this won't be pretty.

State's offense will pick us apart like they did LSU, but I see us having a similar game as LSU's defense even though they have FAR more raw talent. This is where having film on your opponent and seeing the opposing team's mistakes comes into play, and I think we'll make adjustments where LSU didn't.

I think we'll look salty on D for at least a half again before we get too worn out to prevent the big plays. Leach and Costello will dink and dunk us to death in the first half and have long sustained drives, and we might get a stop or two. I think our DL will have much better success getting to the QB and forcing hurried throws or sacks than we saw last week, but their short and crossing routes will pick us apart early for short gains and keep the chains moving.

In the second half we'll put up a valiant effort but not have the depth to stay fresh, and they'll nail us with some long gains and TDs as we tire out. The 4th quarter is where they really pull away, we keep it respectable until then.

Our offense should have more success and be able to sustain several drives throughout the game, and we'll actually be able to run the ball most of the time we need to. State's defense looks about on-par with our first half D from last week, at least against LSU where they were extra hyped to be playing the National Champs. I don't see them having a similar performance here and I think we'll move the ball much better now that nerves are a little more settled.

I still think we live and die by Franks, who will look much better but still make a few head-scratching throws/decisions. The run game will be much better suited to bail him out and the D will actually have to respect it unlike last week, opening up the passing game more. We'll look much better on offense not having to face UGAs front, which is STACKED. We'll move the ball and score on long drives, and Franks will make an amazing play or two for long TDs.

All in all I see us losing (of course), but looking much more well-rounded than week 1. We faced possibly the worst matchup for our offense last week, and now we have film and experience to work with.

MSU - 37
UofA - 24

As much as I want to win a I agree with you. I believe we score somewhere between 24-28 points and leach drops 38-42 it’ll be around a 10-17 point loss

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I'm a little jealous we didn't end up with he and Leach, we would've instantly been another 3-4 wins better.

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but I was criticized by the majority of this board for wanting leach since we hired Bielema.

And we could’ve had him if we wanted

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Y’all are tougher than vanderbilt and mizzou

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Not anytime recently

I shouldn’t say most of the board it was mostly just a few posters in every thread mainly dale. Btw where’s dale been since state dropped 600 on dbu? Him and Sms must be Craig James and his son because they have an irrational hatred for a really good coach in leach

I remember that too. I was scratching my head a little but took his word on it at first because he’s an smu fan