Best Home Schedule Ever?
How much would you pay to see the last three national champions, the preseason favorite to win another championship, a Heisman Trophy winning quarterback that could be the best college player ever, five teams in the preseason top 15, four teams that are favored to win their conference, two darkhorse national title contenders, three of the four best quarterbacks in college football, and the best show marching band in the nation?
If you paid as little as $115 for Mississippi State season tickets, you are in for a special 2009. Plus, I think your team under Dan Mullen will be better than expected. The Bulldogs open their season with in-state foe Jackson State. A "name the score" game for MSU, the highlight of this one will be Jackson State's award winning marching band, the Sonic Boom of the South. Nothing else compares when it comes to marching bands.
2007 national champion and SEC West rival LSU comes to Davis Wade Stadium at the end of September. This is the game that I think Mullen makes it known that Slyvester Croom is no longer in the SEC, and that teams will actually have to prepare for Mississippi State. (I have it on good authority that coaches in the SEC had all the respect in the world for Sly Croom the man, but zero respect for Sly Croom the coach. I mean, did you ever watch the man coach a game? It was like watching Brad Pitt build an atomic bomb).
Georgia Tech comes to Starkville to ring in October. Paul Johnson's crew is a favorite in the ACC, and the triple option offense is simply fun to watch. Houston and their high-powered offense play homecoming guests to the Bulldogs (can you say shootout?) and Mullen's old boss, Urban Meyer brings the defending champs and Tim Tebow to MSU at the end of October.
If that's not enough for you, November brings Alabama and Nick Saban, as well as archrival Ole Miss, both of which are poised to make a BCS run in 2009.
I cannot ever remember seeing a better home slate, muchless the SEC. If State is going to make a run for a bowl in 2009 - They will need to find three wins at home among those seven - not an easy task, as well as three among road games at Auburn, Vanderbilt, Middle Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas.
Best Case Scenario: 6-6 if they can manage to beat JSU, Houston and pull a major upset at home. All five of their road games are in the very winnable category, so a 3-2 road record is not out of the question.
Worst Case Scenario: 3-9. The only sure win is JSU, but I just don't see them not able to manage a couple of wins on the road.
How much would you pay to see the last three national champions, the preseason favorite to win another championship, a Heisman Trophy winning quarterback that could be the best college player ever, five teams in the preseason top 15, four teams that are favored to win their conference, two darkhorse national title contenders, three of the four best quarterbacks in college football, and the best show marching band in the nation?
If you paid as little as $115 for Mississippi State season tickets, you are in for a special 2009. Plus, I think your team under Dan Mullen will be better than expected. The Bulldogs open their season with in-state foe Jackson State. A "name the score" game for MSU, the highlight of this one will be Jackson State's award winning marching band, the Sonic Boom of the South. Nothing else compares when it comes to marching bands.
2007 national champion and SEC West rival LSU comes to Davis Wade Stadium at the end of September. This is the game that I think Mullen makes it known that Slyvester Croom is no longer in the SEC, and that teams will actually have to prepare for Mississippi State. (I have it on good authority that coaches in the SEC had all the respect in the world for Sly Croom the man, but zero respect for Sly Croom the coach. I mean, did you ever watch the man coach a game? It was like watching Brad Pitt build an atomic bomb).
Georgia Tech comes to Starkville to ring in October. Paul Johnson's crew is a favorite in the ACC, and the triple option offense is simply fun to watch. Houston and their high-powered offense play homecoming guests to the Bulldogs (can you say shootout?) and Mullen's old boss, Urban Meyer brings the defending champs and Tim Tebow to MSU at the end of October.
If that's not enough for you, November brings Alabama and Nick Saban, as well as archrival Ole Miss, both of which are poised to make a BCS run in 2009.
I cannot ever remember seeing a better home slate, muchless the SEC. If State is going to make a run for a bowl in 2009 - They will need to find three wins at home among those seven - not an easy task, as well as three among road games at Auburn, Vanderbilt, Middle Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas.
Best Case Scenario: 6-6 if they can manage to beat JSU, Houston and pull a major upset at home. All five of their road games are in the very winnable category, so a 3-2 road record is not out of the question.
Worst Case Scenario: 3-9. The only sure win is JSU, but I just don't see them not able to manage a couple of wins on the road.