Just two Saturdays ago under the lights of Oxford, Mississippi, Mike Leach and the Mississippi State Bulldogs winced as Ole Miss found the end zone with 1:25 to go in an eight-point game. Then a moment later Jaxson Dart’s two-point conversion pass fell incomplete. The Golden Egg returned to Starkville for the first time since 2019.
In three years at Hail State, the Pirate hauled in more booty each time. All anyone talked about in the first week of 2020 SEC football was the 44-34 Bulldogs win and their 623 yards in Baton Rouge over the defending national champions: the official arrival of the Air Raid in the South.