re: Tell some past stories/events for our news friends that are less known outside the SEC

First, Mississippi is called “The Landmass” because CNN kept referring to the state as “The Landmass between Louisiana and Alabama” during Hurricane Katrina coverage in 2005. Since then, they’re joked about as Ole Mass and Landmass State.

For Ole Miss, they deemed their old mascot, Colonel Reb, to be offensive and held a vote on what to replace him with. A viral suggestion was made to make Admiral Akbar the new mascot which won widespread support among fans and students. However, the Administration wouldn’t allow it and instead used the distance second place choice, a black bear, as the mascot instead. Hence why they’re called the “Admiral Akbars” and the “Rebel Blackbears”, and every game against them is a “trap” game.

For some reason, Mississippi St is always Grinding. They’re on the Grind, and all shite talking is the Grind.