Mississippi State might be beginning the final stretch of the 2015 season but the Southeastern Conference released the Bulldogs slate of games for 2016 on Thursday.
MSU begins the 2016 campaign with back-to-back games in Starkville against South Alabama on Sept. 3 and opens SEC with South Carolina on Sept. 10.
The Bulldogs then trek to LSU on Sept. 17 and then Massachusetts to play UMass in Foxborough on Sept. 24 followed up by an open date.
State returns home Oct. 8 to host Auburn then is back out on the road the next two weeks traveling to BYU (Oct.