Dawg83 Posted December 4, 2022 Author Share Posted December 4, 2022 4 minutes ago, s1nglewing said: How does a 5-7 team (Rice) qualify for a bowl? When there aren’t enough 6-6 teams to fill all the slots and your team has better grades than the other 5-7 teams. Lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldogs4 Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 I am fine with Illinois. I just hope most of our players will play. If we are full strength or at least close to full strength I would like our chances to win. Obviously, we will be without Rara and possibly Forbes but if the rest of the players play, I think we will be in good shape. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted December 4, 2022 Author Share Posted December 4, 2022 (edited) Illinois has one of the best defenses in the country and a not great offense so this may be a rock fight. OM-Texas Tech is probably going to be the opposite, total track meet incoming. I don’t think either game is a gimme at all. Edited December 4, 2022 by Dawg83 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebmus Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 46 minutes ago, Dawg83 said: Illinois has one of the best defenses in the country and a not great offense so this may be a rock fight. OM-Texas Tech is probably going to be the opposite, total track meet incoming. I don’t think either game is a gimme at all. I agree, should be two good/close games to watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted December 5, 2022 Author Share Posted December 5, 2022 They got the four playoff teams right. And don’t be shocked if both of those games are close. If I was Georgia I would not be happy about getting Ohio State first, on their best day they might have the best chance of anyone of beating UGA. I think TCU can hang with Michigan, too. Tennessee-Clemson is a literal Orange Bowl. Lol. Kansas State-Bama could be very interesting, especially if Bama isn’t really into it. You know K-State will be fired up. Tulane playing USC in a NY6 game is cool. Penn State-Utah Rose Bowl doesn’t do much for me. There are a few interesting SEC bowls but not a ton. SC-Notre Dame is a neat matchup. Arkansas-Kansas could be a fun game. Same for Oregon State-Florida. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldogs4 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 And USM playing an old CUSA rival (Rice) in Mobile. Glad to see them make a bowl game. I do agree there are some good SEC matchups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSTSatchmo Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 6 hours ago, Dawg83 said: Illinois has one of the best defenses in the country and a not great offense so this may be a rock fight. OM-Texas Tech is probably going to be the opposite, total track meet incoming. I don’t think either game is a gimme at all. Could have the feel of that State/Iowa bowl game a few years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancho Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 Other than MSU having a competent HC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldogs4 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 Yep. I think it is a good chance that our QB plays in this game without being injured by one of his own teammates prior to the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldogs4 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 Oops Wrong game I think but same coach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted December 5, 2022 Author Share Posted December 5, 2022 9 hours ago, MSTSatchmo said: Could have the feel of that State/Iowa bowl game a few years ago. I would prefer if we never talked about that game again. Lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldogs4 Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 No doubt, Moorhead may have won two Egg Bowls but we laid eggs big time in both bowl games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSTSatchmo Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 I think it may be easier to get a list of players NOT in the transfer portal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrickCity Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 On 12/4/2022 at 10:34 PM, MSTSatchmo said: Could have the feel of that State/Iowa bowl game a few years ago. I hope not. We dont seem to preform well under pressure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted December 6, 2022 Author Share Posted December 6, 2022 14 hours ago, MSTSatchmo said: I think it may be easier to get a list of players NOT in the transfer portal. There are rumors of two potentially big ones for State on offense. If true I probably would take Illinois to win the bowl game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted December 6, 2022 Author Share Posted December 6, 2022 15 hours ago, Bulldogs4 said: No doubt, Moorhead may have won two Egg Bowls but we laid eggs big time in both bowl games. One of the main reasons I am glad Leach finally won an Egg Bowl is so that the whole “even Joe Moorhead beat Ole Miss twice” thing can die a death. You literally had State fans saying Moorhead was better than Leach last year because he went 2-0 against Matt Luke and Leach couldn’t beat a 10 win Ole Miss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSTSatchmo Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 58 minutes ago, Dawg83 said: There are rumors of two potentially big ones for State on offense. If true I probably would take Illinois to win the bowl game. I guess Harvey and Griffin saw all the offers that Thomas got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldogs4 Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 Dang, Are we losing Thomas, Harvey and Griffin? That is a lot of production right there. Offense WR’s will have some big holes to fill. Still think none of this should happen until after the Bowl Season is over. Quitting your team is just something I can never digest. I guess it was the way I was reared. I was taught you stuck with your team until the end. One year my little league baseball team went 0-17. No one quit the team. Very disappointing summer to say the least but none of us quit. Might just need to run the ball every play against Illinois…..LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancho Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 marks and johnson are the 2 in question Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted December 6, 2022 Author Share Posted December 6, 2022 (edited) 39 minutes ago, pancho said: marks and johnson are the 2 in question Yep. More concern with Johnson, most think Marks will stay at the moment. Edited December 6, 2022 by Dawg83 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSTSatchmo Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 This is what I saw people speculating about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSTSatchmo Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 I don’t know how much school records mean these days, but I saw Marks is on pace to break the career receptions mark at State. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted December 7, 2022 Author Share Posted December 7, 2022 I’ll be honest, I’m probably not ever gonna be that worried about WR as long as Leach as here. They just spread it around to so many dang guys. Don’t get me wrong, some guys are better than others and RaRa was one of the best WR’s on the team. I just think State will generally be able to find capable guys at WR every single year. Now RB is another story. Marks and DJ are probably two of the more talented RB’s that Leach has ever had. They were both Moorhead signees and Leach hasn’t brought in anybody else on that level since he’s arrived. I like Simeon Price and think he can be a good player. And maybe you can find a decent pass catching RB in the portal most years. But I’ve said before that Marks and DJ were State’s best offensive players this year, and either one would be a big loss for next season. Losing both would be really bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebmus Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 Dillon Johnson is in the portal. He was very respectful of MSU and the fans with his announcement, he went off the top rope towards Coach Leach though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted December 8, 2022 Author Share Posted December 8, 2022 I don’t know what was or wasn’t said to Dillon but it never does either side well to air the dirty laundry. Even if those things were said to him, he probably would’ve been better off just leaving it at “thank you”. That said, good player and State is a worse team without him. Definitely tells me State will be looking for a RB from the portal now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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