By JOEL COLEMAN
sports@starkvilledailynews.com
Games aren’t played on paper. That much was reinforced on Saturday at Davis Wade Stadium when South Alabama, a school that didn’t even have a football program eight years ago, came to Mississippi State and shocked the Bulldogs 21-20.
MSU had planned to use its game against South Alabama to figure some things out. The Jaguars finished tied for fifth place in the Sun Belt Conference a year ago, seemingly making for an ideal opponent to iron out kinks against before Southeastern Conference play begins for MSU.
Instead, South Alabama perhaps gave State more questions than answers.