By JOEL COLEMAN
sports@starkvilledailynews.com
Right about the time Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen was coaching his first-ever game for the Bulldogs back in the fall of 2009, the University of South Alabama was just playing its first-ever football game.
The Jaguars will begin their eighth season on the gridiron this Saturday in an 11 a.m. game at MSU’s Davis Wade Stadium as they play the Bulldogs for the third time in history. State topped South Alabama 30-10 in the first meeting in Starkville in 2012. In 2014, MSU traveled to Mobile, Alabama, and claimed a 35-3 win.