Throughout the stretches of barren wastelands that litter Ole Miss and Mississippi State’s football histories, there have been plenty of first-year head coaches called upon to lead each program out of said wastelands. However, dual callings haven’t aligned since around the time Hitler told the United Kingdom and Europe he definitely wasn’t interested in starting a war as long as everyone was cool with Germany taking a chunk of Czechoslovakia.
On Saturday afternoon, it will be the first time since 1938 that both Ole Miss and Mississippi State have first-year head coaches standing on the sidelines for the Egg Bowl.