Bowl games are strange in the way that they don’t technically have much meaning or bearing on the individual seasons of the teams involved, but they have the ability to make a world of difference in ways that don’t show until months after the event. Momentum isn’t tangible or measurable, but to coaches and their teams, it can be of severe importance and have tremendous impact.
Mississippi State is on the good side of such a momentum swing right now following a 55-20 blowout of Ole Miss in the Egg Bowl to finish the regular season, and it’s because of that win that the Bulldogs are in St.