CBS power rankings has us at #23.........

[99jc]

23 Mississippi State
The Bulldogs followed up their upset of Arizona State with a 63-0 win against Alcorn State. Jeff Lebby has already surpassed his win total from last season with a 3-0 start this fall. Next up is Northern Illinois.

[bulldawg28]

Niceeee!

[PGHBulldogBG]

As long as we win by a fairly good margin Saturday I think we could be right around 24 or 25 before Tenn game.

[EdwardDrayton]

This ride is already better than expected. I'll enjoy the rest of the way whatever the view.

[Todd4State]

As long as we win by a fairly good margin Saturday I think we could be right around 24 or 25 before Tenn game.

I am a little bit surprised we aren't ranked now. We deserve to be IMO. Road win over an improved USM team, solid win over Arizona State that I think will do well in the Big 12, and an almost flawless victory over Alcorn.

Maybe you're right and a dominant win over UNI will get us ranked but we might have to beat Tennessee which is crazy to me to get ranked.

[TrapGame]

I am a little bit surprised we aren't ranked now. We deserve to be IMO. Road win over an improved USM team, solid win over Arizona State that I think will do well in the Big 12, and an almost flawless victory over Alcorn.

Maybe you're right and a dominant win over UNI will get us ranked but we might have to beat Tennessee which is crazy to me to get ranked.

Too bad we ain't Notre Dame. 0-2 and still ranked. Ridiculous. ASU was #12 but after losing a close night game to us they were thrown completely off the poll. Pathetic.

If we put the wood to NIU we'll be ranked around #24. Having us ranked for the Tennessee game is good for a few thousand more viewers.

[DawgInMemphis]

I am a little bit surprised we aren't ranked now. We deserve to be IMO. Road win over an improved USM team, solid win over Arizona State that I think will do well in the Big 12, and an almost flawless victory over Alcorn.

Maybe you're right and a dominant win over UNI will get us ranked but we might have to beat Tennessee which is crazy to me to get ranked.

I would expect a bump to better play up the UT match.

[Todd4State]

I would expect a bump to better play up the UT match.

And it might also take another comfortable blowout win too.

[Todd4State]

Too bad we ain't Notre Dame. 0-2 and still ranked. Ridiculous. ASU was #12 but after losing a close night game to us they were thrown completely off the poll. Pathetic.

If we put the wood to NIU we'll be ranked around #24. Having us ranked for the Tennessee game is good for a few thousand more viewers.

Notre Dame being ranked is ridiculous.

[MrCoachKlein]

Bill Connelly:

Current SP+ rankings if based solely on 2025:

1 Texas Tech
2 Oregon
3 Penn State
4 BYU
5 Indiana
6 USC
7 Washington
8 Utah
9 Missouri
10 TCU
11 OU
12 Florida St
13 Illinois
14 Nebraska
15 Miss St

[R2Dawg]

I am a little bit surprised we aren't ranked now. We deserve to be IMO. Road win over an improved USM team, solid win over Arizona State that I think will do well in the Big 12, and an almost flawless victory over Alcorn.

Maybe you're right and a dominant win over UNI will get us ranked but we might have to beat Tennessee which is crazy to me to get ranked.

We should be ranked. What we have done is more than Auburn or Mizzou and a few others.

In MSU fashion, I hope we are not ranked before UT and come in with a bigger chip.

[Todd4State]

Bill Connelly:

Current SP+ rankings if based solely on 2025:

1 Texas Tech
2 Oregon
3 Penn State
4 BYU
5 Indiana
6 USC
7 Washington
8 Utah
9 Missouri
10 TCU
11 OU
12 Florida St
13 Illinois
14 Nebraska
15 Miss St

I like that analytics likes us. Much more objective than some random staffer picking Notre Dame because Rudy is their favorite football movie of all time.

[Todd4State]

We should be ranked. What we have done is more than Auburn or Mizzou and a few others.

In MSU fashion, I hope we are not ranked before UT and come in with a bigger chip.

I think we're going to have a chip anyway. We haven't won a SEC game since 2023 and that was thanks to Zavion Thomas lining up wrong. Which was hilarious and also not.

I'm expecting another Arizona State type atmosphere especially if we are 4-0. And this will be Tennessee's first true road game of the year. I think it's going to be shootout.

[MStateDawg]

We should be ranked. What we have done is more than Auburn

Depends on what Arizona State does against Baylor this weekend. Auburn's win at Baylor is a really good road win.

[mparkerfd20]

Had we not had the years we've had the last 2 or 3 years I believe our own fans would look at this team differently even. This is one of the better teams we've had since the Mullen years. W and Ls might not be as high but take those years away and the expectations for this team would be out the roof. I'm hopeful we can get 7+. That should be our ongoing expectation as a program.

[HoopsDawg]

We are not a Top 25 team but we should be ranked in the top 25. It should be based on merit.

[Pancho]

beat the orange vols and we will be ranked. lose to them and we won't be

[PGHBulldogBG]

I am not even discussing Georgia because they are probably the best team in the country and have a solid offense and defense, but it does seem interesting that the other teams on our SEC schedule have one of the other. Tenn, aTm, Ark, Mizzou and Ole Miss are strong offensively but have a lot of defensive weaknesses. Texas and Florida are both really poor offensively but probably have better defenses than the other 5. It will be interesting to see which type of team we match up better against. Hopefully we can win some shoot outs in the group of 5 with the good offenses. That would probably lead to our best chance at getting to 7 wins. Arizona State is probably the one team that falls in the middle (better defense than the first 5 but better offense than UF and Texas) so it's hard to say which we do better against.

[HoopsDawg]

beat the orange vols and we will be ranked. lose to them and we won't be

Looks like we are +9.5 at home

[Todd4State]

I am not even discussing Georgia because they are probably the best team in the country and have a solid offense and defense, but it does seem interesting that the other teams on our SEC schedule have one of the other. Tenn, aTm, Ark, Mizzou and Ole Miss are strong offensively but have a lot of defensive weaknesses. Texas and Florida are both really poor offensively but probably have better defenses than the other 5. It will be interesting to see which type of team we match up better against. Hopefully we can win some shoot outs in the group of 5 with the good offenses. That would probably lead to our best chance at getting to 7 wins. Arizona State is probably the one team that falls in the middle (better defense than the first 5 but better offense than UF and Texas) so it's hard to say which we do better against.

Yeah. Oddly enough, we seem to be one of the more well rounded teams in the SEC in all phases of the game. But at the same time, I don't think we're like 1999/2018 defense exceptional on one side of the ball either.

And I think it's a case by case basis. I expect our defense to struggle more against Tennessee but I think they'll do OK against someone like Arkansas. Homefield will be a factor for us too. Like, I could see us losing to Arkansas in a one possession game because of something like that being the difference.

If we do really well this weekend again- that would be four pretty impressive performances in a row. I don't know how many times that has happened for MSU ever. I know it has happened before but it's still impressive.

[Todd4State]

Had we not had the years we've had the last 2 or 3 years I believe our own fans would look at this team differently even. This is one of the better teams we've had since the Mullen years. W and Ls might not be as high but take those years away and the expectations for this team would be out the roof. I'm hopeful we can get 7+. That should be our ongoing expectation as a program.

I agree 100%. I think we have a lot of fans that are encouraged and are in wait and see mode. It's understandable. If we had won 7-8 games in 2024 I think a lot of our fans would be thinking that 10 wins is a possibility.

[smootness]

Had we not had the years we've had the last 2 or 3 years I believe our own fans would look at this team differently even. This is one of the better teams we've had since the Mullen years. W and Ls might not be as high but take those years away and the expectations for this team would be out the roof. I'm hopeful we can get 7+. That should be our ongoing expectation as a program.

Since Mullen? Maybe. But I do not think we have a super high ceiling. We will have to score because especially with Whitson out, I expect our D to struggle quite a bit at time.

[Todd4State]

Since Mullen? Maybe. But I do not think we have a super high ceiling. We will have to score because especially with Whitson out, I expect our D to struggle quite a bit at time.

We'll struggle against people like Tennessee and Texas A&M. But I think they'll do well against some of the lower rated offenses.