1st Year Mississippi State Coaches vs LSU

I went all the way back to Allyn Mckeen to see the succes MSU Coaches have had vs LSU since it is the most played series for LSU and the 3rd for MSU. Most of these are in Baton Rouge too since State for whatever reason doesn't want home games:

1939 W 15-12

A really solid first season for Mckeen. He went 8-2 with the two losses being 1 by TD on the road to Alabama and Auburn. Obviously it goes without saying he ended up being our most successful coach ever.

1949 L 7-34

Besides a tie at Clemson- State lost every game that year under first year coach Arthur Morton. State had a solid year in 1948 going 4-4(with wins at Auburn, Tennessee, and LSU) but decided to fire their coach. Maybe the problem wasnt the coach, but the stupid Athletic Department scheduling only road games.

1952 W 33-14

Murray Warmath ended up becoming Minnesota's like 2nd best coach of all time(behind another former MSU coach in the 1920's, I know where Moorhead is going next....) Nice win for Warmath.

1954 W 25-0

Long before Texas named the stadium after him, Darrell Royal started off as the head coach at MSU. A great win for State in Baton Rouge and gong 5-4 was actually one of the better records for MSU in this era. Tho Royal did very little in his two years at MSU before accepting the job to become Washington's Head Coach.

1956 W 32-13

Wade Walker knocked off two SEC Teams both on the road, Georgia(our last win in Athens???) and LSU. LSU was pretty bad in 54 but so was MSU. Nice win in an otherwise terrible year.

1962 L 0-28

And so it begins, the first State coach to have to face a decent LSU team. And MSU was pretty much in the same cellar as they had been since the firing of Mckeen. Enough said. Tho Paul Davis did get a nice win over Tennessee that year.

1967 L 0-55

Shira won one game, a 7-3 win in Lubbock Texas over #10 Texas Tech. This was his 4th time his team had gotten shut out and quite frankly it was just a bad time all around.

1973 L 7-26

A season that started out really nice for Bob Tyler starting 4-1-2 but then the 4 game stretch of Alabama, Auburn, LSU, and Ole Miss came and bam went State. A good era for Bob Tyler(beyond the forfeits) but a bad loss.

1979 L 3-21

While Emory Bellard did end up starting a 4 game winning streak over LSU in 1980, he dropped this one pretty easily. State would win 3 games in 1979 and would lose to Alabama in Tuscaloosa 7-24( a year before 6-3).

1986 L 0-47

This is the season I think of when people reference 2012. Because this is the original one in my eyes. Rocky Felker shocks the world when he won his first conference game in Knoxville and had MSU at #13 in the country after starting the season 6-1(and the loss was to USM). But he lost to #7 Auburn, #8 Alabama, #12 LSU, and unranked Ole Miss by a combined score of 12-144(mind you all of these games were either in Starkville or Jackson). And to make matters worse, this was by far his best season.

1991 W 28-19

Jackie Sherrill would go on to only defeat LSU once more in 1991. And State would not win in Baton Rouge again until 2014, but he had a fantatsic first season when he pulled this game off and defeated Ole Miss in Starkville the next weekend. This was coming off a bye week as well. Hmmm.... State would go on to their first Bowl Game since the Hall of Fame Bowl in 81 that year but would fall to a respectable Air Force Team who had beat both Army and Navy by a combined score of 92-12.

2004 L 0-51

Sylvester Croom eventually got the best of Saban, but he didn't when he coached at LSU. Following a loss to Maine, Croom took on a LSU team coming off its first loss of the season in a nasty game vs Auburn. The defending National Champions were angry that Saturday Morning and left no doubt how good they were. State would go on to lose to UAB and Vanderbilt before stunning #20 Florida. Croom had a respectable tenure but his abysmal 2008 season led to his demise.

2009 L 26-30

A pick six, a goal line stand at the 1, those two plays separated MSU from finally defeating LSU for the first time in 10 years. Dan Mullen came out with the perfect plan for LSU who was already looking ahead to their big game vs Georgia. Mullen had an absolutely brutal schedule that year and still did a lot with the depleted roster Croom left behind. Anyone who saw this is not surprised at what Mullen is doing at Florida rn.

2018-

How will Joe Moorhead do? He gets LSU after a bye and right as they have all eyes on Alabama. Not to mention the fact they just had two blood baths of games with Florida and Georgia. As I said before, I do not trust the coaching staff to be able to win this game. I need Moorhead to prove that he can win this big game. Because it is getting increasingly obvious that the one coaching staff he did outsmart in Auburn is pretty abysmal themselves. He sets up a big game with Texas A&M if he can win this one. State has played pretty well in Death Valley the last few times with 2014 and the 2016 4Q Comeback. Hopefully Moorhead can rely on a passing game of some sort, because LSU will be able to stop MSUs run if thats all State has enough times to win. And they have a great FG Kicker