1941 Egg Bowl. Beat Mississippi 6-0 to win SEC championship. Only gave up 7 points in 5 conference games. But only scored 40. Football must have been a pretty boring sport back then.
Top5 MSU Football Moments
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1. Ending of Auburn 2014. Best feeling I ever had as a State fan.
2. Dak’s run against LSU 2014. I was sitting in the end zone that he ran into. Seeing and hearing Death Valley go silent as I realized we were about to really become something special, man that was great.
3. Jonathan Banks pick six of Tebow right before half. I’ll never forget it, I was at a Halloween party with family who were all Ole Miss fans and we were watching the game, and everybody had swore up and down that the Mullen hire was a fluke and Florida would beat us by 40. When that play happened, it was like everybody in the room realized we were really on the rise. We lost, but I didn’t care. Great moment.
4. Ending of Egg Bowl 2013. It was cold as hell, but my gosh it’s just my favorite egg bowl ever.
5. The Costello game. I kinda hate looking at it in hindsight, knowing now that it was a little flukey, but seeing Leach come in and go down there and whip LSU in game 1 was just about the most mind-boggling thing at the time. But it felt so great in the moment. RIP Coach.
2. Dak’s run against LSU 2014. I was sitting in the end zone that he ran into. Seeing and hearing Death Valley go silent as I realized we were about to really become something special, man that was great.
3. Jonathan Banks pick six of Tebow right before half. I’ll never forget it, I was at a Halloween party with family who were all Ole Miss fans and we were watching the game, and everybody had swore up and down that the Mullen hire was a fluke and Florida would beat us by 40. When that play happened, it was like everybody in the room realized we were really on the rise. We lost, but I didn’t care. Great moment.
4. Ending of Egg Bowl 2013. It was cold as hell, but my gosh it’s just my favorite egg bowl ever.
5. The Costello game. I kinda hate looking at it in hindsight, knowing now that it was a little flukey, but seeing Leach come in and go down there and whip LSU in game 1 was just about the most mind-boggling thing at the time. But it felt so great in the moment. RIP Coach.
Fans tend to point to the Auburn game as the most memorable moment of the ‘14 season, and rightfully so, but Dak’s run against LSU will always be the one that I remember most. It was the moment that I knew we were about to beat LSU’s a$$ and that we were about to have a special year
Since we’re talking about Bear, he had another big moment in that game that I’ll never forget. At some point later in the game when LSU had gained momentum, and it seemed like they were starting to figure our offense out, we had a crucial 3rd and fairly short play where we simply couldn’t give them the ball back.
Dak took the snap and looked to his left where there was an army of LSU guys, and it looked like the play was blown up from the start. But just when it looked like it was time to panic, Dak spun around to his right where Bear had stepped back behind the line of scrimmage, and he flung him the ball with blockers in front of him. We picked up the first down and I’m 90% sure scored on the drive. Either way, that play completely turned the tide back in our favor, and I don’t think we win without it. One of Mullen’s greatest play calls ever
solid moments here for sure. Norwood putting away the gators in the final seconds on a 30-yd td run was pretty special too. Not sure it was a top 5, but he is a great bulldog that always gave max effort.
As I was reading this I couldn’t help but think that we lost that game. Then I got to your last sentence.
Mullen couldn’t have asked for an offensive group that was more mis-matched for his offense. A tiny QB and a bruiser RB was never in his cards, but he adjusted and got 5 wins. And we were so close to 6, as you say, only 4” away.
Moments that are stuck in my brain about MSU football. Many have been mentioned already so here are a few more "less significant" ones.
Michael Davis long TD runs. It happened multiple times where we were 3rd and short and he ran straight ahead, got through the line, and was gone. Michael only ran straight ahead.
Eric Moulds, possibly the most gifted player in MSU history, made a TD catch in the year that a rule clarification made catches in the end zone only require an instance of control necessary. He dove and got his hands on the ball just above the ground. He proceeded to almost do a cartwheel on top of the ball which went flying away from him when it hit the ground but the rule was once you had possession in the end zone the play was over. The next season they added the whole survive the ground thing.
Larry Friday made a brick wall hit on a receiver. He separated the receiver from the ball and was standing there like Superman over a crumpled Lex Luther.
Michael Davis long TD runs. It happened multiple times where we were 3rd and short and he ran straight ahead, got through the line, and was gone. Michael only ran straight ahead.
Eric Moulds, possibly the most gifted player in MSU history, made a TD catch in the year that a rule clarification made catches in the end zone only require an instance of control necessary. He dove and got his hands on the ball just above the ground. He proceeded to almost do a cartwheel on top of the ball which went flying away from him when it hit the ground but the rule was once you had possession in the end zone the play was over. The next season they added the whole survive the ground thing.
Larry Friday made a brick wall hit on a receiver. He separated the receiver from the ball and was standing there like Superman over a crumpled Lex Luther.
It was only 31 years go....ha.....so its all good.
Wow time fly's!
Wow. I'm still amazed at some of the individual effort that won us that game.
Edward Smith's back to back sacks were huge to get the ball back.
Madkin avoiding the sack on 3rd down.
Hazelwood of course with the clutch gene.
And Kelvin Love... maybe my favorite somewhat underappreciated WR ever. That dude.
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No doubt. And I noticed the lack of bells... listen to the crowd after the FG. We would all be deaf if it happened now. I guess this was in the middle of the period where they were checking and taking up cowbells at the gate. What a crock of shiit.
Serious consideration to Anthony Johnson’s 100 yard pick six in 2007 against Alabama as the clock hit zeros for the half.
I attended this game. That 83-yard punt return put us ahead of Tennessee 14-10 in the 4th Quarter of the SEC Championship Game.
I've never been more fired up and excited at an Mississippi State football game.
Prentiss was once a Warren Central Viking, right?
Spurrier taking the safety ranks way up there
Anytime any State fan meets Spurrier in person, please give him crap about this
Anytime any State fan meets Spurrier in person, please give him crap about this
The 1974 "Rockey" game against Memphis at night in Memphis against a good Memphis team will always be the biggest to me. You can't understand how bad we had been......we had won 30 games in the prior 10 years.