So far no Troy for State
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So far no Troy for State
Alabama at State on Oct 3
After Bama plays in Starkvegas, they play Georgia, Tennessee, and A&M back to back to back! 😁😁
State @ LSU Oct 17th
Egg Bowl on Saturday in 2026!
Going to try to go to South Carolina. Hate it's so early in the season, though. Columbia is God awful hot.
Sound like the the same ole. We get the toughest schedule
Now where can we find 6 wins. We got 3 OC games. Auburn can be a win. Ole Miss. BUT after that, the road is hard to get to 6
2026 Schedule:
September 5: vs. Louisiana Monroe
Sept. 12: at Minnesota
Sept. 19: at South Carolina
Sept. 26: vs. Missouri
October 3: vs. Alabama
Oct 10: Bye
Oct. 17: at LSU
Oct. 24: vs. Oklahoma
Oct. 31: at Texas
November 7: vs. Vandy
Nov. 14: vs. Auburn
Nov. 21: vs. Tennessee Tech
Nov. 28: at Ole Miss
That October schedule is brutal
5 wins gonna be tough to get no matter who coaches us
We're still paying collateral for winning in OMAHA....****
JC what a brutal schedule.
Any worse than 3-1 going into Bama loses the fanbase.
In order of winnability imo:
vs. Tennessee Tech
vs. UL Monroe
vs. Auburn
at Minnesota
at Ole Miss
at SCar
vs. Vandy
at LSU
vs. Mizzou
vs. Bama
at Texas
vs. OU
You can talk yourself into 8-9 wins based on others not being the behemoths you think. 10+ is possible if everything breaks right. Hosting OU being the toughest game means no "unwinnable" game. We get 3 SEC teams with a first year coach - maybe up to 5 depending on how NFL jobs and the michigan domino fall.
ULM
Minnesota
South Carolina
Missouri
Vandy
Auburn
Tennessee Tech
Ole Miss
We should be able to find 6 wins out of these 8. If not, we will be hiring a new entire Staff next December.
Better buy some talent. We'll be the underdog in at least half of those if not 5Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainObvious
We probably have to be at least 3-1 at the end of September to have any real shot of making a bowl. (And I don't mean a 5-7 bowl.)
October is going to be rough, and we have 3 SEC games in November that who knows what to expect.
I see 6 and 6 .... and I'm a skeptic by nature
What do you mean? We have a bye week ***Quote:
Originally Posted by PGHBulldogBG
7-5
Looking at the schedule is impossible right now. Let's see how serious we are after another humiliating egg bowl loss and if we hit the portal like we should.
Why are we still playing Minnesota? P4 game still a requirement even with 9 SEC games? Contractual thing? If we now have to play 9 SEC games plus a P4 game every year its going to be tough sledding for us EVERY year.
Yes it is. Now we only get 2 guaranteed wins. We cant compete in this current situationQuote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
We got people bitching about how much we spent in 2025 and didnt win 6 when we were last or next to last in the SEC in spending
We will go 6-6. Outside shot at 7-5. That is our forever lot from here on out. We better accept it and go enjoy the dang minor bowl games that come with that kind of record.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
I will have to see how everyone does in the portal before I make any overarching guesses on how other teams will look. I was not impressed with any SEC team outside of Georgia. We were not a great football team and we were in every game in the second half except Georgia.Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainObvious
I think eight wins is a reasonable goal next year. But you get there. We have to get better across both lines, Kamario needs to improve his accuracy, and we really need a couple of receivers out of the portal who could step in and step up. We also need to re-tool the secondary. That sounds like a lot, but everyone else is going to have to do just about the same thing.
We spent enough to have easily gone 7-5 if we hadn't done stupid things like throw an INT against FL at the end when we were already in FG position to win or not rough the passer in the TX game when we had a 17 point lead in the 4th Q and ready to take possession of the ball deep in TX territory. There are still multiple games a year that come down to coaching and not doing stupid things during the game to lose them. Those are the things we need to get better at. No matter what we spend in NIL, the majority of the SEC will always be able to spend more. Its just our lot in life unless we get a booster that somehow becomes a billionaire and wants to blow his money paying college players.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
Well, I?m only 6 numbers away from winning hundreds of millions in the lottery but I still wouldn?t blow money on college players. Maybe an island off the coast of Belize though.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
Those games aren't even that close if we had a decent offensive and defensive line. One play and one coaching decision good or bad does not win or lose the entire game.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
The encouraging thing is that we had that many close games and went from 2-10 and basically not competitive to competitive in one offseason. We made up a lot of ground. And honestly, if the schedule was a little bit more manageable like if we played Auburn and South Carolina instead of Georgia and Florida- we might have gotten to 6 or 7 wins easily.
I think we can compete in this era but it's not just NIL. It's a combination of things. You have to have a perfect storm go on.
We have to have stability because that's the only way we can build a team with the talent to compete. And I'm talking about through the portal and through high school recruiting. That means a competent coach that has been here for a few seasons and has built a program in place and has a foundation.
We also have to have a schedule that hits right as well. All teams cycle out. No matter what. Even Alabama and Georgia will. Now, yes they take longer to cycle out but it happens. If we catch enough teams that are in a down cycle plus we have stability that's when we have the recipe for a potentially special season. That's what happened to us in 1998 and 1999. At that time teams like Alabama, Auburm, and LSU were trending down and we were able to get South Carolina on a downtrend along with Vandy. Kentucky was up but basically the same as us and same for Ole Miss at that time. Same thing has happened to Ole Miss the past few years.
With this new schedule format, I feel like we have a much better chance of catching teams on a downtrend than before. We don't have to play Nick Saban era Alabama every year anymore. Well, we do but that could change in four years. We also don't have to play LSU and Auburn every year anymore. We had to do that every year for what? 75 years or more?
And sure, we'll also cycle out at some point and have schedules like we had this year every now and then but the odds of us having something more manageable is also much higher too.
We didn?t spend enough money to easily do anything. We spent enough money to have to coach and execute at near perfection.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
Meh. The 2018 team coached by Dan or the 2014 team would win 8-9 against that schedule.Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainObvious
And we were at the bottom of the SEC on roster spending both of those years, too.
We just have to get some lineman. We will have the most physically gifted QB in every game we play. He is a generational talent.
Looking at the schedule, you may be right. Looking at the schedule, the only teams that could challenge us on that would be Bama(if they start Keelon Russell) or LSU(if they get Bryce Underwood to transfer. Outside of that we will have the better QB in every game. And that matters in college football.Quote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
Already sent in your big check?Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
I'm not necessarily going to say better. We may. But I will say most physically gifted (big, strong, fast, stronger arm).Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Trying to understand...So if a person doesn't send in a very large amount of money, that person can't say we need a lot of money to be able to compete with the other SEC teams????Quote:
Originally Posted by quickstrike2
When it gets said over and over by the same person, it just gets old. I have seen it so much, Coach telling everybody they better fund it if they want it. That's a fact, but its easier to point the finger instead of the thumb.Quote:
Originally Posted by DownwardDawg
We play in the SEC and the schedule is challenging most every year. For decades, I have felt it was unfair that we seldom played Vandy. Well, now we have them as a permanent opponent.**** We have to step up and move up as a program. I doubt any other SEC has feared playing us the last three years and are glad to see us on their schedule. This has to end ASAP. Do your part in any way you can to WIN now. Looking good losing, or even worse, looking bad losing does not fill seats at DWS or retain interest in MSU football.
The schedule is fine. It's not any better or worse than most years. Fact is when you're the "easy win" on everyone else's schedule of course the schedule is going to look difficult. There's a path to 6+ wins so buckle up and enjoy the Kamario Taylor experience
It?s more of the same by one particular person in here telling this crowd which I suspect lives slightly below their means that they need to essentially take food out of their kids mouths to help fund spoiled 18-21 year olds who couldn?t pour piss out of the bottle with direction a on it! NO! just NO! This needs to be funded by those fans and alumni who make $150,000 plus to $40 million plus per year. Not the $60,000-$70,000 earners who mostly make up the MSU Fanbase!
So 34 and friends. Just stop it! It ain?t coming from us middle income folks. It has to come from the wealthiest supporters and the rest of us buy tickets and yell like hell and ring our bell!
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Originally Posted by DawgFromOxford
This! I cant even afford to take family to a game anymore.....Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainObvious