Long before Nick Fitzgerald was a record-breaking quarterback for Mississippi State, and years before Dak Prescott was QB1 for the biggest franchise in the country, the two young men were relative unknowns at a game together for the first time. Fitzgerald, a senior at Richmond Hill High School, and Prescott, a sophomore at MSU, were far younger that day in 2013 when Fitzgerald had his first experience with the Egg Bowl.
A no-star recruit on his official visit to MSU, Fitzgerald was cheering in the stands when he watched Prescott make his miraculous comeback in the Egg Bowl’s first-ever overtime game, and when MSU safety Nickoe Whitley forced Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace to fumble into the endzone and secure the win for the Bulldogs, Fitzgerald was among the loudest of those celebrating the win.