Today's fun Egg Bowl fact.....

[HD6]

I only looked back to 1955, but 2001 is the only time we have beaten Ole Miss in a year where we finished with a losing record and they finished with a winning record.

 

[HD6]

I only looked back to 1955, but 2001 is the only time we have beaten Ole Miss in a year where we finished with a losing record and they finished with a winning record.

 

[elvisjulep]

I would imagine looking back over most rivalry games, when one team has a winning record and the other has a losing record, the odds probably favor the team with the better record. That usually means that team is a better team.

 

[was21]

woodieassaf

 

[Reb95]

emotions of a game will only get you so far, then you actually have to be better than the other team to win. In this situation I think y'all aren't too far away from us in talent...especially if McCluster goes down. Anything can happen. Dixon could cut loose for his last game.

 

[HD6]

to find the word "unusual" in my post. I said it was a fun fact, and it has bearing on this year's game.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

...and the Rebs a winning one.

 

[HD6]

Ole Miss finished 5-5-1.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

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[graddawg]

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[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

Can we let this game count as 6 games?

 

[Oxford Godfrey]

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[HammerOfTheDogs]

They lost 20-17 to The Mississippi State University, then 14-7 to Tulsa in the Bluebonnett Bowl....all after being consensus #1 to start the season.

 

[Chickamauga]

I really don't think State was a horrible team in 2001. It just seemed like every break that went for you in 1999 went against you that year. Wasn't Florida the only team that absolutely destroyed you?

 

[8dog]

I believe we led 4 games at some point in the 4th quarter that year and lost---BYU, Bama, Auburn and Ark.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

but you're right...the other games were pretty close.

 

[Chickamauga]

I'm sure our first divisional title winner will suffer an analogous defeat to Alabama.

 

[MSUCostanza]

We had Auburn beat until whatshisface (Duval?) hit like a 93-yard FG into a 30mph wind to beat us. The BYU game was the infamous MWC Ref Game. And BYU was undefeated, as I recall.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

Turning point was a blocked punt. They brought their out-guys in for a block. We left our gunners out there and looked like an idiot with his pants down. I was also at the Bama game. We hung in there well against a rebuilding Bama squad. Fant was the best QB we had this decade.

 

[8dog]

we were up with under 2 to play and Matt Jones went 80 yards in about 40 seconds, mostly running the ball.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

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[Todd4State]

I only looked back to 1955, but 2001 is the only time we have beaten Ole Miss in a year where we finished with a losing record and they finished with a winning
record.

Honestly, to date that is the last time I have ever seen a MSU QB play competently. Pitiful.

 

[Todd4State]

so beating them with a losing record when they have a winning record is a once every thirty years phenomenon.

Thank you Kevin Fant.

Thank you Hoyle Granger.

 

[Sutterkane]

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[GloryDawg]

I also think that out of those four games we had eight missed field goals and lost all those game by three or less.

 

[GloryDawg]

I only looked back to 1955, but 2001 is the only time we have beaten Ole Miss in a year where we finished with a losing record and they finished with a winning
record.

Honestly, to date that is the last time I have ever seen a MSU QB play competently. Pitiful.

They showed Miss State with Ole Miss record and Ole Miss with Miss State record all night. The football gods were a little confused.