This time of year, it seems as if all sportswriters are writing stories about silly preseason projections or rankings, attempts at comparing teams or players to characters from TV shows or all kinds of other poor attempts at humor. This is not one of those stories. This is very, very serious journalism about the hairs growing out of football players’ faces. Such an endeavor became clearly necessary when, at SEC Media Days last week, none of the players could agree whose facial hair was best.
In fact, this isn’t even a story. This is science, breaking down and reviewing the facial hair of each Mississippi State football player who has any, using the new headshots recently posted on HailState.