Around 1:10 a.m., Mississippi State’s team bus pulled up to their hotel, the Hilton Anatole. Waiting inside was a crowd of hundreds in Maroon and White chanting and cheering and causing general mayhem in a hotel where everyone should have been asleep by then. Before they walked off the bus and into the crowd, the team director of operations stood up and told them they could take a second to say hi to friends and family, but they had to get upstairs quickly so they could go over the schedule for the next day and get them to sleep.