The Wide Zone concept has taken over the NFL and is prominent in some of college football’s best rushing offenses. Will Mississippi State football adopt the scheme this season?
The story of the offseason for Mississippi State football has been the transition away from Mike Leach’s Air Raid to new OC Kevin Barbay’s offense. Barbay comes from a pro-style background, calling offenses that have been run-first in nature and utilize a wide variety of formations, personnel groupings, and motions.
It’s a drastic shift for a Bulldog offense that has thrown the ball more than 70% of the time while almost exclusively working out of 4-wide sets over the last three seasons.