Mississippi State football: could this crazy scenario play out?
There’s a crazy scenario that could play out this weekend for Mississippi State.
Over the summer, I was goofing around on twitter and asked a hypothetical question via our football account: would you trade a loss to someone like South Alabama for a win at LSU or Bama?
The response to the poll, as you can see, was over-overwhelmingly in favor of such a circumstance.
The reason I came up with the question is this: prior to the 2016 season, Dan Mullen always beat who he was supposed to beat. And with only a few exceptions, he had always lost to who he was supposed to lose to.
By comparison with our rivals to the north, they beat teams like Alabama and LSU, then lose to Memphis and Arkansas. Their year is up and down. While MSU is steady and sometimes predictable.
So the foundation of the question was, would you rather have a more unpredictable team? Obviously no one would like to lose the South Alabama or Samford games, but if it meant getting a win vs. LSU and Alabama they would take it. At least, in July fans wanted to.
Perhaps the loss to South Alabama has served as fuel to the fire inside the Mississippi State football team. It’s not ideal if that’s what it took, but the team looked dead vs. the Jaguars and alive vs. the Gamecocks.
LSU, meanwhile, suffered a loss to Wisconsin and has not really lived up to expectations through two weeks. They have a quarterback controversy and Leonard Fournette may be hurt. State is still a 16 point underdog and it’s still Death Valley, but I currently feel better about our chances than I did before the season.
That’s gone from believing MSU has a 5% chance to win to a 15% chance, but any hope at all is some hope.
It would be pretty unbelievable for State to pull off an upset at LSU after just getting upset at home two weeks prior. But it could happen, and that trade we talked about over the summer would indeed have taken place.
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