First look at Mississippi State

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On Saturday morning (Central time), the Dawgs take on the Bizarro Dogs in Starkville as Georgia tries to keep hope of an SEC championship game berth alive. Mississippi State comes in after breaking their long SEC losing streak this past Saturday against Arkansas. We find ourselves in a classic trap game after an emotional win in the Cocktail Party and an upcoming showdown with Texas in Athens. Let’s get to the first look.

Series record

Georgia leads the series 21-6 and has won 5 in a row in the series.

Last meeting

The Dawgs win in Athens 41-31 after running out to a 27-10 halftime lead. Carson Beck throws for 450 yards but 2 interceptions including one that would have likely put the game away in the 3rd quarter. The Georgia defense gives up over 300 yards passing and makes the game much less comfortable than it should have been.

Gambling degenerate facts

Georgia is a 7.5 point favorite on the road with a point total of 57.5. Georgia is a -320 favorite on the money line.

Interesting statistic: +4

Mississippi State has had good turnover luck so far this season with a solid margin paced by 11 interceptions. When you get behind the numbers, the Bizarro Dogs have a -1 margin in SEC play. If they don’t win the turnover margin, I don’t see a path to an upset.

Early outlook

Will the Dawgs play with their food on Saturday afternoon? If so, this has the potential to be a game that goes into the 4th quarter. If not, the Dawgs could win this game going away similar to the Kentucky game. Georgia has all the hard edges tilted in their direction with a superior roster across the board. This game really feels like 7 1/2 points is there for the taking. Dawgs win and could win comfortably.

What’s your thoughts on Saturday? Let us know in the comments below.

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I've been a Dawg my entire life. UGA was always my dream school where I received 2 Terry College degrees and met my DGD wife. I've been a season ticket holder for over 30 years and love the in-stadium experience over anything from Section HD. My first game in Sanford Stadium was the 1981 Auburn game where we clinched the SEC championship. The best game I've attended in person was the Midnight Miss against Ohio State (nite, nite!). The best home games I've attended were the 1984 Clemson game (the Butler did it) and the 2013 LSU game (that 4th down is still the loudest single moment I've experienced between the hedges). The game I love to win is against the Handbags (FTMF), and the game I hate to lose is the NATS (Tuck Fech).

24 thoughts on “First look at Mississippi State”

  1. I’m still waiting for someone to explain how they can do the God damn cowbell thing when no other school could get away with it. If we all brought air horns or those Aztec death whistles or whatever to Sanford, they’d stop the damn game. – PDawg30577

    • There was a period within the 70’s & 80’s, maybe longer, when the cowbells were prohibited in conference games. Does anybody know when the rule changed?

      • Not sure when, but the crowd is supposed to stop ringing them when the center is over the ball just like the band or music stops playing.

        Don’t know if the officials have ever enforced that.

      • My recollection was that the prohibition was later and it isn’t that they changed the rule, they just gave up trying to enforce it. I think at some level people feel sorry for them.

        Besides I remember a time when qbs could ask the ref for an official time out if it got too loud and the home team would be threatened with a delay of game.

        Didn’t last long.

        Teams have since figured out silent counts and the qb has a receiver in his head so I just don’t think various degrees/types of noise are the communication problems they once were.

        Noise is now more of a concentration/emotional thing these days because these young guys tend to be as soft as tissue.

  2. Structurally, I’ll be looking at the difference in our DBs this game vs the Tenn game. Their coach is a Heuple Disciple (wow still cain’t believe I typed that), so will we play more Man Coverage this game, will our guys play the ball in the air, what will be the PI situation (although that depends on the Refs), will we tackle better in space, and will we huff&puff and blow our assignments (what teams, especially Tx & Bama salivate over against us)? A good win really sets us up for Tejas. I’ll be watching FilmGuy and Coach Hayes content to see what to look for.

  3. Oh c’mon. We know this script. Slow start on offense. One long drive converting every 3rd & long by the bizarro dogs plus a cheap score for them before the half. Down 10 going into the 4th with our message boards demanding Bobo and Schumann be fired on the tarmac, Gunner engineers a comeback featuring Branch and Bowen for a 4 point Dawgs win. And so it is written.

    • That’s pretty much what I expect from these Dawgs. Hopefully they’re wide awake for an 11:00 kickoff.

  4. In the eyes of us bettors (looking at you CarolinaDawg), this is a classic sandwich game. Coming off an emotional & hard fought cocktail game with “PRIMETIME” lurking next week v Horns, this is a game that could trip us up!! My former contact within Mal Moore used to tell me Saban hated the away game in CST with a 11am start time. Usually means a 6am wakeup, 730am breakfast, 9am bus ride to stadium — after a travel day. I am still analyzing, but do not like this game!!!! WHERE ARE YOU SKEPTICDAWG????

  5. It’s probably going to be a tough game.
    The real Dawgs need to be sharper than they were against the Turds.
    Gonna get State’s “best shot” and it’s good enough to take us down if we look disinterested (aka “playing with our food”) again.
    Our Dawgs no doubt get everyone’s “Best Shot”…comes with the lofty territory..But I think we’re all ready to see the our boys start giving THEIR best shot from kickoff to 00
    It doesn’t feel like we’ve seen Georgia’s full potential this year. If the coaching staff can just coax that Genie out of the bottle (Erk could do that) the Georgia Bulldogs could be off to the races for the rest of the season and the playoffs.

  6. I hear msu struggles with the run game. If so, maybe we can save us some heartburn and have a relaxing Saturday for once.

  7. “This game really feels like 7 1/2 points is there for the taking. Dawgs win and could win comfortably.”

    Don’t you put that voodoo on me, Ricky Bobby. Winning comfortably is not what this team does.

  8. Just saw this on a MSU web page:

    In 1974, the Southeastern Conference adopted a rule against all artificial noisemakers at football and basketball games. On a 9-1 vote, SEC schools ruled cowbells as a disruption and banned them. However, in 2010, the SEC revisited the topic of cowbells and have allowed to let Mississippi State ring bells during pregame, timeouts, halftime and after the Bulldogs score. During the one year probationary term, Bulldog fans are asked to follow these guidelines in an attempt to permanently be allowed to carry cowbells at home games.

  9. The Bizarro Bulldogs do things on offense that the Georgia defense struggles with and is going to test our secondary with two elite speed WRs and a 5th year QB. This will come down to can the Dogs’ D finally get stops early in the game to allow our Offense to get some separation. We should be able to run the ball down their throats and put up over 30 points. MSU can score with anyone, but they can’t stop anyone.

  10. I am hopeful that this will be the game that we are locked in and focused from the opening kickoff. I know that the season has not gone this way at all but perhaps after the win against FL, CKS and staff impress upon them that we need a business like approach.

    One benefit of the early kick, if we win, is that the team gets back to Athens relatively early and we have a full week before a 7:30 pm start against UT-Austin.

  11. HS teams have substituted milk jugs filled with coins, or marbles, or rocks. Just as obnoxious but I prefer the cowbells (except when UGA is playing).

  12. It’s late, just got home from work, but I did something today.

    I asked grok if we were going to win Saturday. The reply was yes, predicted score of 31-20 in our favor. Lots of other words too, I guess AI is entertaining for something, lol.

  13. Is Kirby really going to let Anthony Evans run all over his secondary?

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