We've got a heisman candidate, a very favorable schedule, perhaps our most talented player (jones) ever, and our recruiting class is currently 5th in the country. Will this be our best season ever?
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We've got a heisman candidate, a very favorable schedule, perhaps our most talented player (jones) ever, and our recruiting class is currently 5th in the country. Will this be our best season ever?
Hard to top the 10-0-1 season of 1940- when we should have been the National Champion, but in my lifetime it's:Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
1980- an inexplicable loss to USM dropped us to 4-2, then we ran the gauntlet beating Miami, Auburn, Alabama, LSU, and Ole Miss in a row. Finished 9-3 with a Sun Bowl loss. Had this famous catch and run not happened late in the game- we would have been in the Sugar Bowl that season:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXTU4kUnZzs
1998- thanks to a weak SEC West, we neded up in the SEC Title game at 8-3 (6-2). One of the greatest days of my life was watching us run out of that tunnel that night. Tough last half of the 4th Q to watch as it slipped away.
1999- we started 8-0 thanks to a great defense. We just couldnt get it done vs Bama and then there was no excuse to lose to UPig on that cold shitty night in FayetteNam or Little Rock. 10-2 with a win in the Peach
If 2014 is better than those 3, I'll be a happy SOB
National perception from most on Rivals is that we may not qualify for a bowl.
And in 1980 turnovers killed us in that Sun Bowl. We gifted that one to Nebraska. The beginning of the game looked like MSU might dominate, as I recall.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
National perception consistently underrates us.Quote:
Originally Posted by blacklistedbully
Good. I love it when we don't get respect. Hope we get picked to lose every game.Quote:
Originally Posted by blacklistedbully
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Originally Posted by FlabLoser
It blows my mind how in seemingly every thread almost everybody puts Ole Miss ahead of us, and comfortably. We beat them 4 of the last 5, yet those clowns for some insane reason keep thinking they are the ones who could contend year after year, while we're gonna scrape the bottom.
There was one FSU fan who actually did make an intelligent post, stating that Ole Miss hadn't done a damn thing since 1963, and we'd at least won a Division title. But just about everyoen else pegs us at the bottom with Arky.
They just dont care when they play us or that there excuseQuote:
Originally Posted by blacklistedbully
Where is this rivals article?Quote:
Originally Posted by blacklistedbully
247 has us 11th currently. How'd we drop 4 spots?
Chris Stamps has no rating yet, so he's added 0 points while increasing our class size by 1.Quote:
Originally Posted by CJDAWG85
Oh ok... He's got some pretty nice potential if I'm not mistaken.
Everyone is caught up in the recruiting ranks and the program names that they know. I would eventually become disinterested in following cfb if that were the case with me. Our name is a virtual unknown in the college football world and the people that know who we are seem to hate us anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by blacklistedbully
Chris Stamps is rated a 3* on scout and a 88 3* on 247.... I see his stock increasing as the season progresses. Watch for a future bear attack come next December.Quote:
Originally Posted by hacker
The 98 game was one of the worst called game in MSU history....we were beat before it started.
You're looking at composite versus 247 ratingsQuote:
Originally Posted by CJDAWG85
"National perception", I don't even know why we would ever listen to that shit. That is for teams like Bama. Lets just do our own thing and surprise the world. #hailstate
I can't really speak much to the '40 season but until we go back to the championship game I think the '98 team has to always be included in talk of the best season ever. Even though the West was weak it was great sitting in the Georgia Dome and being considered with the "elite" of the SEC that day. Hell, we almost won the game, over the eventual national champions, but it went south quickly and then their band played Rocky Top about 75 times in a span of 10 minutes. Hopefully this year we'll just win the whole thing and the discussion of best season ever will get very easy.
If we stay injury free,i think we got a shot at winning 10 games. Our offense in gonna be a fun offense to watch they gonna score some points. Our defense i think is gonna be nasty good. Alabama and lsu the two losses,and i just dont know about aub but i am counting them as a win if we play like we can play should have beat them last year,am i way off on this?