It’s pretty obvious that the first SEC game of the year is important, but there are a few more layers to the South Carolina game than what first meet the eye.
1. MSU has never won more than six regular season games when losing to an Eastern division team.
Dan Mullen has guided State to eight win regular seasons in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2015. In each of those years the Bulldogs were a combined 9-0 vs. the East. In the other years (2009, 2011 and 2013), MSU only beat Kentucky going 4-4 overall and losing at least one game each of those seasons.