Random midweek thoughts about Mississippi State's football teams

It’s the middle of the week and most of us have fully turned our attention towards the upcoming weekend. Some of us might have even done that around 9 p.m. Saturday night.

Mississippi State’s attention is squarely on its upcoming opponent, Northern Illinois.

The Huskies are becoming one of those small schools that is famous for upsetting Power 4 teams. They did it to Notre Dame last year and, 22 years ago this Saturday, they beat then-No. 21 Alabama.

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”Mark Twain

In this case, the Bulldogs should hope this isn’t the rhyme:

The Crimson Tide? Sunk.
The Fighting Irish? Kerplunk.
The ‘Dawgs got punked.

No, that’s not a prediction. Just a fun little haiku. My official prediction will come out Friday.

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For now, here are five random thoughts about the Mississippi State football team, plus a bonus about the other football team:

Random Thought #1

Did Mississippi State run the exact same play at the start of the Alcorn State game?

The Bulldogs ran a pass play with Brenen Thompson that went incomplete. The next play was Jordan Mosley’s 75-yard touchdown, but it looks to my untrained eye that everyone ran the same routes.

If so, I love it. They knew they had a touchdown play and were going to run it until it scored, unless it was entirely different play. Either way, it worked out.

Random Thought #2

I’m seriously tempted to pick Northern Illinois to upset the Bulldogs because I keep having flashbacks to how easily Arizona State ran the ball in the second half.

It was how the Sun Devils got back into the game. But then I think, can the Huskies cover someone with Thompson’s speed? But if the Huskies run the ball, that would keep the Bulldogs off the field.

But, then again, Alcorn State had possession for more than 40 minutes last week and lost 63-0. That’s, basically, my thought process.

Random Thought #3

I’m planning to do a deep dive of this tomorrow, but based on Kelley Ford’s college football resume rankings, the Bulldogs require the fewest amount of wins to be in consideration for an at-large playoff bid.

The problem is the number is five and identifying what five games those wins might come will be the focus of a story tomorrow.