1980 SEC accomplishment...

[maroonmania]

October 25		Auburn		Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium • Jackson, Mississippi		W 24–21
November 1		No. 1 Alabama		Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium • Jackson, Mississippi (Rivalry)		W 6–3
November 15		LSU	No. 19	Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium • Jackson, Mississippi (Rivalry)		W 55–31
November 22		vs. Ole Miss	No. 17	Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium • Jackson, Mississippi (Egg Bowl)		W 19–14

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Only year I know of in modern times where we beat all 4 of those teams in the same year.

 

[MSUDC11]

Also won at Miami. But we somehow managed to get beat by USM by 28 in Starkville, too.

 

[maroonmania]

Also won at Miami. But we somehow managed to get beat by USM by 28 in Starkville, too.

I hate Lindsay Scott. He cost us the Sugar Bowl that year. USM, as usual, was sky high when they played us whereas we appeared to be sleepwalking.

 

[Dawg1976]

Unfortunately I was also at the USM beatdown. I remember it being hot as hell that day and came away with a fried face.

 

[Todd4State]

Greatest run in MSU football history.

 

[Dawgzilla]

If we would have accepted the Florida forfeit then I guess we would have retroactively tied for the Championship. I'm not sure if our Admin was making a statement about forfeits, or if we were just too cheap to want to hang a championship banner.

 

[RocketDawg]

October 25		Auburn		Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium • Jackson, Mississippi		W 24–21
November 1		No. 1 Alabama		Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium • Jackson, Mississippi (Rivalry)		W 6–3
November 15		LSU	No. 19	Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium • Jackson, Mississippi (Rivalry)		W 55–31
November 22		vs. Ole Miss	No. 17	Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium • Jackson, Mississippi (Egg Bowl)		W 19–14

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Only year I know of in modern times where we beat all 4 of those teams in the same year.

Did we have Nov 8 as an off week? For a long time, those 4 games were all in a row, and they stayed that way until fairly recently. That was pretty brutal scheduling.

Seeing this reminds me of how happy I am that they moved the games back to campus. When I was in school, all the decent games were in Jackson so we as students were robbed of part of our college experience.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

yes, we did...and it was the best-placed Off-week in School history.

 

[maroonmania]

Unfortunately I was also at the USM beatdown. I remember it being hot as hell that day and came away with a fried face.

Yes, as I said in the other thread that was my first game to ever attend to see MSU play a football game. I was a JR in HS and picked a bad one to start with.

 

[00Dawg]

It was pride, and very little but pride.

Emory told folks we were winning the SEC in 1985, and the AD believed him.
Me, I'd retroactively accept.

 

[Dawg1979]

October 25		Auburn		Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium • Jackson, Mississippi		W 24–21
November 1		No. 1 Alabama		Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium • Jackson, Mississippi (Rivalry)		W 6–3
November 15		LSU	No. 19	Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium • Jackson, Mississippi (Rivalry)		W 55–31
November 22		vs. Ole Miss	No. 17	Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium • Jackson, Mississippi (Egg Bowl)		W 19–14

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Only year I know of in modern times where we beat all 4 of those teams in the same year.

Apparently we need to go back to playing in Jackson.

 

[KingBarkus]

Yes, we had an off week after the Bama game in 1980. I was in school during that time. We would not beaten Millsaps if we had played November 8. Parties every night at the drill field following the Bama win. Everyone was floating around on cloud 9. The lsu game was glorious that year, especially the second half.

 

[DawgsOnTheWing]

I know I was at the Bama, LSU and Ole Miss games that year. A little unclear on whether or not I was at the Auburn game (but probably was). We got up early on LSU and they came back to tie it 24 all at halftime. Then we ran away in second half.

 

[Clarence Boddicker]

Apparently we need to go back to playing in Jackson.

That time has long passed. Sometimes it sounds like a decent idea, and I always said it might be easier to draw a bigger crowd in Jackson for the FCS opponents. At this point, I hope JSU ends up building their on-campus stadium and we just bulldoze the Vet. Let the hospital have it.

 

[thekimmer]

Looking back now it is inconcievable how we thought it was a good idea....

Did we have Nov 8 as an off week? For a long time, those 4 games were all in a row, and they stayed that way until fairly recently. That was pretty brutal scheduling.

Seeing this reminds me of how happy I am that they moved the games back to campus. When I was in school, all the decent games were in Jackson so we as students were robbed of part of our college experience.

To play our biggest games several hours away from campus. Back then there was little tailgaiting and it was an exciting trip down to the capital city but in retrospect it put us decades behind in developing on campus facilities and probably recruiting as well and it further retarded growth of the area as well and cemented the image of vegas as an isolated backwater hamlet. There was no place deader on planet earth than Starkville, MS on a jackson game day.

I suppose bama did similarly with legion field but then bham was only 50 miles down the road on an interstate hwy.

 

[thekimmer]

I hate Lindsay Scott. He cost us the Sugar Bowl that year. USM, as usual, was sky high when they played us whereas we appeared to be sleepwalking.

I turn it the other way. UF is worthy of more hatred than Scott. They screwed us twice. The beat us by 6 earlier in the season and then absolutely choked away the lindsay scott game. If either result had gone our way we would have had a championship and sugar bowl. Heck maybe they screwed us three time because later on they were found to be cheating at the time.

 

[thekimmer]

Yes, we had an off week after the Bama game in 1980. I was in school during that time. We would not beaten Millsaps if we had played November 8. Parties every night at the drill field following the Bama win. Everyone was floating around on cloud 9. The lsu game was glorious that year, especially the second half.

I remember that. Poor ol' emory had to finally insist, nicely but firmly, that mobs of students stop coming to his house late every night to wake him up for an improptu pep rally.