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Last Friday, SEC media predictions for the 2024 college football season were released, and Mississippi State football’s standing in those predictions was par for the course. Despite there no longer being divisions in the league, the tradition of voting Mississippi State last in the SEC West was effectively maintained.
MSU was picked 15th in the conference, ahead of only Vanderbilt. One spot ahead of the Bulldogs were an old SEC West rival, the Arkansas Razorbacks.
The SEC media believe an Arkansas team that finished 4-8 last season with a disgusting 7-3 home loss to MSU and enters the 2024 season with a multitude of questions and a lame duck head coach in Sam Pittman will, ultimately, be a better squad than the Bulldogs in their first season under Jeff Lebby.
And though they’re just one spot higher in the pecking order and bickering over insignificant rankings, particularly for teams that few expect to be good, is largely futile, allow me to rant a bit. Because this isn’t just a one-off prediction from voters given the changes happening in Starkville. If that were the case, I’d show some grace. But it’s been commonplace for Arkansas to be voted ahead of State at Media Days for years, and it’s absolutely absurd. Arkansas once had a long run of, frankly, dominance over MSU. From 1995 to 2011, State won the annual matchup just twice.
And believe me, if that was indicative of how the series was still going today, you wouldn’t hear a peep out of me about. But since the firing of Bobby Petrino in 2012, the series has turned heavily in Mississippi State’s favor.
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