The Vast Difference Between 6-6 & 5-7 - MSU Football 2025

6-6

A Bowl Game with more practice time for the players we hope to keep in 2026.

A signature win over a Top 10 SEC team.

A win over our rival OM (With the portal I think this is just another game to our paid, many one or two and gone players, however, as about 40 or so come in from all over the country yearly.). Still bigtime victory to MSU fans.

Renewed hope for 2026

More upside to sell for HS recruiting and the portal for players that we need to make a difference in wins in 2026 and beyond.

5-7

Third straight losing season.

Three game SEC losing streak to end 2025.

Possible skull dragging in the EGG Bowl.

"Signature" SEC win is Arkansas, only SEC team possibly worse than us.

Lebby and his staff are 1-15 in the SEC over two years.

Little hope for 2026 from many fans and season ticket sales again suffer for 2026.



Lebby, get the upset! Biggest game of your HC coaching career to date.

This is probably the biggest game as far as program stability in a long time. If Lebby wins this game it catapults ticket sales and Goodwill for 2026. Lose this game and a lot of fans will have one foot out the door and Lebby needs to have a strong recruiting/portal class and another strong start in 2026 to win fans back.

I am personally still in a wait and see mode on Lebby. On one hand, up until UGA and Mizzou, we looked like a team that at least got after it. We got out coached some but the effort was there and we lacked talent in the trenches. On the other hand, I see some Moorhead tendency to not look in hindsight on what could have been better choices. Not acknowledging that you should run clock against Texas is insane. He seems to be in that same mindset as Moorhead in that everything he calls is always right. Even Saban shifted from what he saw wasn't always the best choice.

It really is a career-defining game for Lebby. The fanbase is desperate to jump on the bandwagon if he can give them some nugget of hope.

I usually do not say things like this, but this Egg Bowl is truly the most important Egg Bowl and possibly game in the history of the program. Assuming Lane goes to LSU or UF, Ole Miss ends the season losing their coach and not hosting a home playoff game. This puts Lebby and State as the more stable program in the state and a huge opportunity to have portal players believe in Lebby and show more interest in coming to State to play ball. A win of this caliber will also help gain fan support, improve our NIL and really catapult us into the new year with a positive trajectory. Unfortunately, a loss will most likely put us at the bottom of the SEC for several more years to come and possibly any type of foreseeable future. Lebby will have barely any fan support, NIL will decrease, it will be hard to field a roster and we will most likely be looking for a new coach next off season. In the NIL era, it makes it a lot more important to not fall so far behind that you can't catch up with support. We have not had true fan support with 100% of the fans being bought in since Mullen. Lebby has a chance to be the first State coach to do that and I believe the support will come if he wins this game. Leach was a good hire, but he did divide the fan base and he was just never going to get support from everyone. Lebby on the other hand has an opportunity to do that and we absolutely must win this game in order for that to happen.

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Originally Posted by Goldendawg

6-6

A Bowl Game with more practice time for the players we hope to keep in 2026.

A signature win over a Top 10 SEC team.

A win over our rival OM (With the portal I think this is just another game to our paid, many one or two and gone players, however, as about 40 or so come in from all over the country yearly.). Still bigtime victory to MSU fans.

Renewed hope for 2026

More upside to sell for HS recruiting and the portal for players that we need to make a difference in wins in 2026 and beyond.

5-7

Third straight losing season.

Three game SEC losing streak to end 2025.

Possible skull dragging in the EGG Bowl.

"Signature" SEC win is Arkansas, only SEC team possibly worse than us.

Lebby and his staff are 1-15 in the SEC over two years.

Little hope for 2026 from many fans and season ticket sales again suffer for 2026.



Lebby, get the upset! Biggest game of your HC coaching career to date.

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Agree and if Lane leaves the door just opened up for all good things for MSU and Lebby if he can cash it in. Lane has to leave for us to pull it off.

I usually do not say things like this, but this Egg Bowl is truly the most important Egg Bowl and possibly game in the history of the program

Massive, massive overstatement.

Yes, it the biggest game, but why did it come down to this game? Why didn't he address this importance at the Fla game? Or Texas game.

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Originally Posted by AROB44

I usually do not say things like this, but this Egg Bowl is truly the most important Egg Bowl and possibly game in the history of the program

Massive, massive overstatement.

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Yeah, 2014 was the biggest one I can remember off the top of my head. Coulda went to playoffs

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Originally Posted by msstate7

Yeah, 2014 was the biggest one I can remember off the top of my head. Coulda went to playoffs

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14 was bigger because we would have been 11-1. We would not have made the playoffs, but we'd have been 11-1 and gotten the Peach Bowl.

15 was bigger because a win would've put us in the Sugar Bowl and probably puts Dak in NYC for the Heisman. He doesn't win it but that puts him there. He also probably is there in 14 with a win.

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Originally Posted by AROB44

I usually do not say things like this, but this Egg Bowl is truly the most important Egg Bowl and possibly game in the history of the program

Massive, massive overstatement.

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Not in the NIL era it is 100% truth. I wouldn't have said this in the traditional old school times. If we do not win this game, the support next year will be limited, NIL funding will decrease. The support this year was already poor based on half the stadium being visiting fans. This will make it nearly impossible for Lebby to field a competitive team in this environment. It will then lead to Lebby being dismissed from the school and finding a new coach after Ole Miss already finds a new coach and starts to create stability post Kiffin. If we win, that will cure a lot of our problems and allow Lebby to field a competitive team next year and create stability within the program. This will in turn help portal players make a decision to play ball at State.

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

14 was bigger because we would have been 11-1. We would not have made the playoffs, but we'd have been 11-1 and gotten the Peach Bowl.

15 was bigger because a win would've put us in the Sugar Bowl and probably puts Dak in NYC for the Heisman. He doesn't win it but that puts him there. He also probably is there in 14 with a win.

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Yea losing to Bama in 2014 was bigger than losing to Ole Miss. Even if we lost to Ole Miss and beat Bama, we would've been in the playoffs and SEC champs. That game was not super relevant once Ohio State won the Big 10.

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Originally Posted by PGHBulldogBG

Yea losing to Bama in 2014 was bigger than losing to Ole Miss. Even if we lost to Ole Miss and beat Bama, we would've been in the playoffs and SEC champs. That game was not super relevant once Ohio State won the Big 10.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought our game was before the iron bowl. Bc of this, the sec championship wasn't out of play when we played OM. Auburn was a top 20 team too. At the time of the egg, it was massive; you can't look at it in hindsight.

They fully think the egg bowl is his last game there.

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

14 was bigger because we would have been 11-1. We would not have made the playoffs, but we'd have been 11-1 and gotten the Peach Bowl.

15 was bigger because a win would've put us in the Sugar Bowl and probably puts Dak in NYC for the Heisman. He doesn't win it but that puts him there. He also probably is there in 14 with a win.

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11-1 MSu team in 2014 was making the playoffs.

This EB is YUGE......for all the aforementioned reasons.....but 14....THE TEAM......froze against BAMA but absolutely got Mullened against om. 15 the DOGS seemed to be physically whipped and it was a different Dog team that year, not nearly as physical as 14 that absolutely didn’t seem to make the trip to the ditch. Yes, as bad as the last 3 years have been plus CML ......THIS IS YUGE......It is IMPERATIVE........It used to be worrying about the Dick Pace refs or Bellard going conservative.....now is the time Coach Lebby.....GO DOGS...!!

Just for you young pups.......never forget

https://youtu.be/DocxZM1lQEg?si=pmR7LqI9KQaG7HGK

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Originally Posted by Quaoarsking

It really is a career-defining game for Lebby. The fanbase is desperate to jump on the bandwagon if he can give them some nugget of hope.

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You made this exact post before the Arkansas game.

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Originally Posted by HoopsDawg

You made this exact post before the Arkansas game.

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His hate is getting lazy. Now just cut-and-paste. Lolz... Really made a mockery of his pre-Lebby posts, which were good.

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Originally Posted by HoopsDawg

You made this exact post before the Arkansas game.

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Even though Lebby got the win over Arkansas, fanbase morale is even lower than ever now. Even on this board (the most pro-Lebby place on the Internet), we've seen several notable defections from the pro-Lebby to the anti-Lebby camp since then.

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Originally Posted by Quaoarsking

Even though Lebby got the win over Arkansas, fanbase morale is even lower than ever now. Even on this board (the most pro-Lebby place on the Internet), we've seen several notable defections from the pro-Lebby to the anti-Lebby camp since then.

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This is true. I was very pro Lebby until the Mizz game. I'm not saying fire him or anything like that. It just made me realize he may not be the guy. But I hope he is.

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Originally Posted by Quaoarsking

Even though Lebby got the win over Arkansas, fanbase morale is even lower than ever now. Even on this board (the most pro-Lebby place on the Internet), we've seen several notable defections from the pro-Lebby to the anti-Lebby camp since then.

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Sure.