re: Mississippi State Football 2012: "I've Got a Fever..."

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If the OL can stay healthy

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The key along with actually, maybe, just somehow, finally beating Auburn to have some momentum.

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I do expect big things out of Tyler Russell.

18 passing TDs, 8 rushing TDs

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lolololololol

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A&M lost six games in the Big 12 last year, you'd have to be pretty stupid to be surprised at them losing in Starkville.

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Yes, please elaborate on why Miss State beating Tennessee at home is so impossibly humorous.

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Mississippi St will be at least 6-1 by the time they play Alabama on October 27th.

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I feel like every season that's our most important game.(because of momentum. win that one and the next conference game is more important.)

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This. Our O-line will decide how many SEC games we win.

14-0

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we lost 2 starters on the OL vs them last year. I didnt realize it until the other day, but Dillion Day played the entire 4th quarter at Center. We had 2 R-Fr thrown into playing their 1st SEC snaps in that 2nd half.

Difference in the game

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I disagree. Offense, or the lack of it, is not what lost that game for State. Their inability to stop Auburn's offense for the first three quarters is what lost it.

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A&M blew double-digit leads to Arkansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Oklahoma State, and Texas. It's not like A&M was uncompetitive and not like A&M lost becuase it didn't have talent.

A&M lost those games instead of winning them by the WIDE margins it should have won by because of the mindbogglingly inept leadership of Mike Sherman, who refused to put a man in the booth, called his own plays from the sideline, and attempted to manage his players and playcall just as one would in the NFL while obstinately disavowing any difference between professional sports and college, stubbornly eschewing any criticism of his system, and maintainig the outward demeanor of a sleepy grandpa.

And in the end, he got canned for it. Rightfully so.

I'm not saying A&M is going to roll into Starkville and dog-stomp the Dawgs, but I am saying you'd have to be stupid to essentially just say "A&M lost 6 games last year, therefore they'll suck this year" without taking into account how those losses happened and why.

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And you're assuming MSU didn't have similar circumstances? In the MSU-Alabama game Alabama didn't convert a third down until the last play of the third quarter, at which point we were down ten after missing two field goals. MSU lost to Auburn by a touchdown on the one yardline and ran out of time, even though two of their starting O-Lineman got hurt and they gave up two TD's in 2 minutes. Our D plays a little better or our O-lineman stay healthy we win that game. In the Georgia game we were in the redzone with less than two minutes left about to score when one of our players tipped a ball which turned into a pick which turned into a TD. We complete that pass and we're down 10-17 heading into halftime instead of 3-24. Other then Alabama we were the only team to get a pick off of Jarrett Lee, and we laid Honey Badger the frick out so he fair catched all of our kicks. South Carolina we lost by two points and missed two field goals. Other than Arkansas we were in every game we played and were the only teams to play Bama and LSU anything resembling closely.

Nobody said that the Aggies were gonna march in Starkville and get rolled, and no one's saying the Aggies are gonna suck. We're saying it's easily possible for MSU to take at least two out of three of Auburn, Tennessee, and Texas A&M.

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I disagree. Offense, or the lack of it, is not what lost that game for State. Their inability to stop Auburn's offense for the first three quarters is what lost it.

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no doubt was a contributor- our gameplan on D that day was shite for some unknown reason. BUT- we stalled offensively in the middle of the game because of our OL problems. We only scored 2 FG's offensively in the 2nd, 3rd, and 1st half of the 4th quarter. Banks pick-6 got us a TD thank goodness.

Our R-Fr OT we put in caused us alot of problems once he entered the game. Those guys dont go down we probably score 50 points

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I disagree. Offense, or the lack of it, is not what lost that game for State. Their inability to stop Auburn's offense for the first three quarters is what lost it.

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Y'all are both wrong. The first five minutes lost the game.

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7 of those points were not on the defense.

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I calmly walked outside of a friend's and threw a beer bottle on the concrete on that return.

I was entertaining a nice group at the crib that day. All the food and catering by yours truly went to shite when that happened. I saw it coming from a mile away, put the beer down, and cracked open the whisky.