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- Pick/market: I didn’t realize until today that MSU was part of the first football game after 9/11

- Pick/market: As expected, Mississippi State (1-0) and Minnesota (1-0) blew out their week one opponents at home.

- Pick/market: Pretty sure neither was cleared to participate fully in practice since before spring ball.

- Pick/market: That’s the problem though.

- Pick/market: Also, it’s just a by product of the times.

- Pick/market: Arnett will be fine.

- Pick/market: he looked good in the reps he got.

- The Sept. 11 report describes Minnesota-Mississippi State as a near-pick'em spread: State was favored for most of the week, but Thursday movement put Minnesota ahead at some books while others still favored State by roughly a point. This is the article's dated market snapshot, not a live line or a pick. - The preview identifies Mississippi State's strong opening-drive scoring last season and control of tempo as keys to its 2026 road game at Minnesota. State routed Louisiana-Monroe and Minnesota routed Eastern Illinois in their openers; the article treats those wins as tune-ups rather than tests against comparable opposition.

- The writer expects heavier Darius Taylor usage after 17 opener touches and emphasizes Minnesota's Greg Johnson/Ashton Beers inside blocking against Mississippi State. New DC Zach Arnett is described as varying three-, four- and five-man fronts around a 3-3-5 base after the Bulldogs allowed over 36 points per game to Power Four opponents in 2025. The usage call is a projection, not a confirmed workload. - Mississippi State's Kamario Taylor averaged about 98 rushing yards and held the ball 3.48 seconds per pass across three career starts, per this preview. Four offensive-line starters are new, with the right guard and tackle making first starts in the opener. The writer proposes disguised zone and pocket discipline for Minnesota; that is analysis, not a disclosed defensive game plan. - Mississippi State's 2025 offense averaged 77.3 plays per game; the preview cites PFF's second-fastest tempo at 18.9 seconds remaining on the play clock. Anthony Evans III took over 95% of his opener snaps in the slot. On defense, CB Kelley Jones allowed 28.9% completions on throws his way last season. These are historical/early-season matchup indicators, not settled 2026 unit ratings. - The Minnesota preview says kicker Luke Drzwiecki's status remains unknown, leaving Daniel Jackson as the conditional alternative; it does not confirm a clearance or absence. Javon Tracy scored twice on punt returns in the opener and added five catches for 98 yards. Mississippi State kicker Kyle Ferrie went 8-of-11 from 40-plus yards in 2025, a historical contrast rather than a guaranteed kicking edge.

- Injury: Cowboys already getting injury bug isn’t a good way to start szn Tyler Smith on IR AND Malik Davis was carted off practice today

- OL/LB: Our OL Coach was suspended a year after a portal violation.

- Injury: Tillman was starting in the depth chart they released

- Injury: most teams, Mississippi State is relying a lot on players it got from the transfer portal this offseason.

- Injury: I don’t know exactly what we’ll see, but their #1 RB was in and out with injury stuff all year last year.

- Mississippi State's offensive line allowed no sacks and one tackle for loss in the opener despite replacing four starters, with Minnesota identified as a substantially tougher test. - Jeff Lebby expects Hill to push for more carries after a seven-carry, 118-yard, two-touchdown performance, while Fluff remains the leader of the running-back group.

- QB: Verno was, apparently, in town back in the spring and saw Kamario walk in and someone told him he’s our QB.

- QB: With the way other results played out, you’re probably right.

- QB/LB: The QB run is not going to be ever be 40% of Lebby's offense.

- QB: I dont know how many we win or how many lebby "must win" but I can say that I've been a fan for 50 years and I've never seen us with the skill position...

- Pick/market: What: Mississippi State at Minnesota When: 2:30 pm CT, Saturday Where: Huntington Bank Stadium, Minneapolis, Minn.

- Pick/market: Howdy folks, glad to be back for more football talk.

- QB/WR: They lost the one guy who made them a playoff team two seasons ago and they lost the two guys who made them just above average team last season.

- QB/LB: Glowing preview from Minn HC leading up to our game.

- QB/WR: This might be one of those 100 yd games for KT out of necessity.

- Pick/market: “One of the Best qb they’ve ever played while he has been there” - pj fleck on Kamario Taylor

- QB/TE: someone said it in the game thread but I’m so glad we paid Ant whatever he wanted.

- Pick/market: It's clear we have, by far, our most talented and dynamic QB in our history.

- QB: 9 mil + a generational qb would be pretty hard to turn down I feel like

- Pick/market: Not really for 3 reasons: 1.

- QB/LB: I watched McVay and worry about his strength.

- Intel: Steen Is our swing tackle who is our top backup on the interior

- Mississippi State started Kamario Taylor at quarterback against Louisiana-Monroe; Jaden Rashada and Parker Puckett also played. AJ Swann and Brodie McWhorter were listed as did not play. The participation list gives no reason for those absences and does not establish an injury, demotion or future rotation. - Mississippi State's opening offensive line included first-time State starters LJ Prudhomme and DJ Chester at guard, plus Jahkeem Shumpert-Perkins and Miles McVay at tackle. Canon Boone was listed as the starting center. These are recorded opener starts, not a promise that the same five will start the next game. - Mississippi State's front seven included first-time State starters DE Amaree Williams, DL DJ Reed and LB Jalen Smith against Louisiana-Monroe. The participation table also lists Jaray Bledsoe, Will Whitson, Amaree Jackson and Tyler Lockhart as starters; it provides appearances and starts, not snap shares. - Mississippi State safeties Jardin Gilbert and Marcus Williams and cornerback Jett Jefferson made their first State starts in the opener. Isaac Smith and Kelley Jones were also listed as starters. Kendel Dolby, Kaylib Singleton and true freshman Bralan Womack played without a recorded start, confirming participation rather than a specific defensive snap role. - Mississippi State WRs Zion Ragins and Sanfrisco Magee made their first State starts against Louisiana-Monroe, alongside listed starter Anthony Evans. Transfer Marquis Johnson and true freshman Camden Capehart also appeared without starts. The report does not supply targets, routes or receiver snap counts.

- Intel: Convince me that you know more about locker room speeches than someone who played SEC football.

- Intel: kinda, though as mods have pointed out these depth charts are usually put out by GAs/Media folks not the coaches.

- Fleck's Week 2 scouting assessment credited Mississippi State's Kamario Taylor with improvement in accuracy, progressions, decision-making and extending plays. He described Jeff Lebby's offense as combining fast receivers, tackle-breaking backs and big linemen with the ability to accelerate or slow its pace. This was an opposing coach's pregame assessment based on limited 2026 film. - In that pregame interview, Fleck described Mississippi State's defense as multiple in fronts, blitzes and coverages, with substantial disguise. He said more than 60 new players and only one current-season game limited personnel evaluation from older tape. That is a scouting and continuity caveat, not confirmation of a newly installed defensive package.

- Mississippi State's defensive plan calls for changing the pictures shown to Lindsey and affecting him in the pocket rather than allowing him to operate comfortably against predictable looks. - Mississippi State is making quarterback protection a central offensive preparation point against Minnesota's rotating pass rush, with Lebby emphasizing keeping his quarterback clean as a major part of the game plan.

- Mississippi State quarterback Kamario Taylor was described by the opposing coordinator as dangerous both scrambling and throwing deep, with Collins citing a roughly 70-yard throw as evidence of his arm strength rather than viewing him as only a running quarterback. - Mississippi State's running-back pairing presents contrasting problems in Collins' scouting assessment: No. 24 runs low and powerfully through contact, while No. 6 supplies burst, within a rushing scheme that includes gap concepts rather than only inside zone and stretch.

- Intel: Individuals: Kamario Taylor: 22/34 (64.7%) for 354 yds, 4 TD / 0 INT; 6 rushes for 59 yds & 1 TD Anthony Evans III: 7 catches for 118 yds (16.9 YPC) & 1 TD...

- Running Back Fluff Bothwell Cornerback Jett Jefferson WATCH: Postgame Press Conferences At Minnesota - Mississippi State: Cornerback Jett Jefferson September 12, 2026 | Football

- WR/LB: Our starting corners were Calhoun and Love.

- OL/LB: Congrats of playing at ECCC or Northwest or some other directional community college.

- Offense: It’s been a great week honestly.

- Offense: I married by ex-wife on this game day.

- OL: Never, but the ol' bladder ain't as strong as it used to be.

- OL/DL: I’m excited about what I saw vs ULM but I’m pushing myself to be reasonable!

- Mississippi State true freshman J.J. Hill came off the bench for 118 rushing yards and two touchdowns against Louisiana-Monroe in his college debut, giving the backfield an immediately productive reserve option. - Mississippi State's Hill received a 95.8 PFF grade that the article reports as the highest among true freshmen, although that opening performance does not establish how he will handle stronger opponents. - Mississippi State's veteran backs are still expected by the reporter to receive most of the work as the season progresses, so Hill's explosive debut is not presented as a confirmed promotion to the lead role.

- RB: I bet he is the only one (freshman or even maybe any rb) to do it just one quarter.

- RB/LB: A true FR RB will emerge this weekend and by the time they come here in 18 days he will have 6 rushing TDs and 275yds rushing and be on the Heisman watch list

- OL: Toothman has a bright future but he’s the 9th OL right now.

- WR: We have more good depth at WR than I can remember.

- TE: really just starting to feel like this staff might have really hit on this past HS class.

- OL: My read of the MSU gameplan was "run game is fine, let's have KT drop back." Had positive gains on his limited carries and had a nice bounce to the outside in the second...

- WR: on KTs TD run he threw the block that allowed him to go untouched in to the endzone along with our WR that was blocking his butt off in the endzone.

- OL: Offensive line did a good job.

- DB: Dave Marler was something special that day...the wind was horrific out of the north and all the scoring took place in the south end zone...so probably not 8 consecutive drives...

- QB/LB: Austin Simmons has struggled against defenses with a pulse.

- Defense: if I were Arnett I’d be going hard after him and tampering with every good defensive player they have.

- Mississippi State's Zach Arnett defense changes fronts, coverage looks and player alignments to provoke protection or assignment errors, according to opposing coordinator Greg Harbaugh, who linked that shifting picture to tackles for loss and interceptions.

- QB/DL: I don't think we "played vanilla", but I do think that what we saw was a product of how we elected to play on defense more than anything else.

- RB: There should be some games where we can run out a fresh RB on a gassed defense late in the game.

- Defense: KTs accuracy, he threw 3 early balls off target including a swing pass at the recievers feet, but came back with something like 14 of the n3xt 15 being completed all over the field.

- DL: For needed depth.

- Mississippi State has settled former multi-position lineman Trevion Williams at defensive tackle, with Will Whitson and Amaree Williams on the edges and interior duties shared with DJ Reed, Kalvin Dinkins and nose tackle Jaray Bledsoe. - Mississippi State's initial defensive rotations held Louisiana-Monroe to 107 yards, four first downs and three points before halftime, while Trevion Williams contributed three tackles, a solo sack and a pass breakup in limited playing time. - Trevion Williams said Mississippi State's newcomers had picked up Arnett's aggressive defensive approach well, although the opening game still exposed mistakes to clean up before the tougher road test at Minnesota.

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- Intel: Go to YouTube....search college football games live and you'll be surprised how many games are being shown.

- Intel: He also fired the best football coach that Mississippi State ever had.

- Intel: I don’t know how many games we’ll win this year, but I do know we’re going to have a chance in every one of them.

- Intel: College football predictions: Staples' best trades of Week 2 On3's Andy Staples provides his best trades for week 2 of the college football season via Polymarket.

- LB: I don’t know what is going to happen but do know a couple of things.

- Intel: This is the point where those that know and love you slap you and say, "snap out of it" and you wake up and say "thanks I don't know what came over me".

- Intel: Hulu, Peacock, Paramount+, and Prime and you should be good.

- Mississippi State started transfer linemen Miles McVay at left tackle, DJ Chester at left guard and LJ Prudhomme at right guard, with Isaiah Dent and Ja'Elyne Matthews also playing at tackle and guard respectively while Tyler Miller did not dress and no reason was provided. - Mississippi State linebacker Gav Holman did not dress for the opener and James Heard Jr. did not play, but the transfer roundup does not identify an injury or explain either player's absence from the action. - Mississippi State transfer receivers Marquis Johnson and Zion Ragins each scored against Louisiana-Monroe, with Johnson catching three passes for 99 yards and Ragins three for 45. - Mississippi State started transfer safeties Jardin Gilbert and Marcus Williams, who recorded six and five tackles respectively, while Kendel Dolby also contributed six tackles and Quentin Taylor, Jamroc Grimsley and Kaylib Singleton appeared in the cornerback rotation. - Mississippi State started edge Amaree Williams and used Dealyn Evans extensively in the defensive-line rotation, with each credited with half a sack while Jayson Jenkins added four tackles and Gus Cordova also rotated without a recorded statistic.

- Intel: Kiffin is embracing the gangsta image, laughing at himself and the rest of football all the way to a fortune.

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- Intel: He embarrassed Jayvin Williams on the one long TD pass but only had 2 catches in the game.

- Intel: My daughter is a senior and was friends with the senior football player who was killed!

- Intel: I don’t think anyone’s ready for the H1Mario mania that’s about to take place.

- Intel: We've been ranking the top 25 for the last 100 years of the sport.

- Intel: Yea 5 snaps is not enough of a sample size to even look at pff

- Intel: We better play him before he decides to enter the portal!