Mississippi State almost did it. They almost overcame the Crimson Tide. They almost outmatched the second ranked Alabama. Dan Mullen almost overcame Nick Saban. Unfortunately for those of us in Starkville, things did not go the way that we hoped that they would. The Bulldogs’ best just simply wasn’t enough tonight.
In the end, State fell 31-24 in a game that went down to the wire against the Crimson Tide. The Bulldogs led the Saban coached team for longer than every other team that Alabama had played combined.
The Bulldogs went punch for punch and toe to toe with the Tide in this game and it started from the get go.