Yes that is a good point for the short term. However if you really want to analyze what benefits State long term, it is Alabama, LSU, & OM losing as many games as possible. They recruit against us entirely to much and often win that battle. We need those programs to suck and us being good, to help recruiting.
But to be honest I had not put that much thought into it. I just like to see Alabama lose because of all their high school drop out, chain smoking fans in Columbus that could not point out Tuscaloosa on a map. I could not care less about LSU and Ark.