Mississippi State Sports Blog

The voting has opened for the year’s top Pontiac Game Changing Performance. Eight of the 13 plays are from SEC games, which says a lot about the caliber of SEC football this year.
In particular, Anthony Johnson’s endzone interception and 104 yard touchdown return is one of the nominees. You can visit the Pontiac Game Changing [...]

The voting has closed on the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year. Over 290,000 fans voted and the results are in. Coach Sylvester Croom was voted as the Division IA Coach of the Year by the fans.
How much influence this vote has in the actual Liberty Mutual award is yet to be seen. It looks [...]

Coach Ron Polk announced yesterday that Homewood (Alabama) High left-hander David Hayes had officially signed a scholarship to play with the Diamond Dogs.
Hayes is a 6-2, 170-pound two-sport standout at Homewood High School, where he a three-year regular on the mound for coach Doug Gann and for four seasons was a quarterback for the HHS [...]

Rivals.com has released their All-SEC teams and their pick for SEC Coach of the Year. Derek Pegues makes the All-SEC First Team as free safety. Here is what Rivals had to say about their pick:
Pegues has collected 46 tackles and three INTs while continually coming through for the Bulldogs in big situations. Pegues scored on [...]

Looks like Coach Croom was on the recruiting trail Tuesday, visiting MSU commitment Terrance Davis, a quarterback at Salem High School in Georgia.
It seems that Davis is still committed to State, but admits he will listen if Florida wants to talk to him.
Davis said Florida is the only team that could pry him away from [...]

It is less than a week away from the bowl selection Sunday and Mississippi State fans are anxious to know where they will need to make their travel plans to. There seem to be two leading bowls that we are being considered for: the Liberty Bowl and the Music City Bowl.
There really doesn’t seem to [...]

The Mississippi State ticket office has announced that it will begin taking orders for bowl tickets on Monday, December 3.
Ticket prices will vary depending on the bowl. Tickets will be assigned to Bulldog Club members and season ticket holders in priority rank order with a maximum number of 10 tickets at priority. To secure their [...]

Mississippi State defensive back and special teams player Derek Pegues has earned SEC Special Teams Player of the Week for his 75-yard punt return in the 4th quarter that helped Mississippi State comeback from a 14-0 deficit to defeat rival Ole Miss in the Egg Bowl.

Pegues returned a fourth-quarter punt 75 yards for a touchdown [...]

After trailing the rebels for most of the game, the Bulldogs tied the game on a punt return for a touchdown by Derek Pegues. Adam Carlson put the Dogs on top with a 48-yard field goal with 12 seconds left to play.
This win gives the Dawgs a 7-5 record and more post-season options.
Let’s go bowling! [...]

Mississippi State DE Titus Brown and RB Anthony Dixon are both named as finalists for the Conerly Trophy.
The Conerly Trophy, given annually to the state’s premier college football player, will be presented Tuesday, Nov. 27, at the Hall of Fame and Museum. A total of 61 media voters representing radio, television and print outlets [...]

Posting will be slow here through the weekend. My grandfather passed away and I will be in Meridian with family until early next week.
Still, there is a lot going on in MSU sports right now. Scotty Hopkins is toying with us on signing or not signing in the early period. The Dawgs lost what seemed [...]

MSU defeated the Crimson Tide today in front of a sold out crowd at Davis Wade Stadium.
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Word out of the ticket office in Starkville is that tickets for next weekend’s game between Mississippi State and Alabama are going quickly. Kyle is reporting over on his blog that the MSU Athletic department sent out a media alert today stating that they only have 200 or so tickets left in large blocks and [...]