STARKVILLE, Miss. — Every year, football players all say the same thing, about how each game is just as important as the others, and you have to take them all one at a time.
Don’t blame them. The clichés keep everyone from providing excessive bulletin board material and getting into trouble with their coaches.
But when it comes to Mississippi State, there really is one early game that needs to be circled on the 2015 schedule, because it’ll likely dictate the tone of the whole season.
It’s the same game that essentially started last year’s epic run, LSU, which had previously won 14 straight meetings, and 21 of 22 against the Bulldogs.