Bent’s Bites: MSU @ LSU
This is the game that I’ve been looking forward to for a long, long time, folks. Our beloved Bulldawgs are finally headed downriver to face off against those Coon-ass Cats of Louisiana State University.
This is the one game that, to me, will tell the tale of our season. This is the one that will tell us just how good we are… or aren’t. The preseason is over. We’ve managed to get to 3-0 by knocking out our three warm-up, out-of-conference rent-a-wins. Now, conference play starts, and it starts in a big way, too. Saturday night in Death Valley! Louisiana State has been a thorn in the side of Maroon and White Nation for so long that it’s almost comical. Dan Mullen has never beaten LSU. Les Miles has never lost to Mississippi State. Then again, there may have never been a Mississippi State team with as much talent, depth, leadership, experience, and cohesiveness as this year’s team, so bring ’em on!
I’m sure that all Mississippi State fans everywhere, like me, want this one so bad we can taste it. I can certainly smell it, and it smells like… Corndogs!
It seems like it’s going to be one heck of a match-up, too. The Bayou Bengals’ greatest strength is their rushing attack. This just happens to run smack-dab into our greatest strength — stopping the run. I sooo want to see Benardrick McKinney, Preston Smith, Chris Jones, and company go completely PSYCHO on LSU’s run game. I also want to see Justin Cox back in the secondary and those guys showing improvement against the long ball. I want to see the Dak Attack with Robinson, Griffin, Shumpert, Lewis, Wilson, and company tear holes all in what I keep reading may be the best defense in the SEC.
For those of you brave enough to travel down to Cajun country, please be careful. Y’all know them folks ain’t right. Don’t even mention corndogs. They’re very sensitive about the way they smell, and it’s almost guaranteed to make them angry. You don’t want to have to deal with an angry, crazy Cajun on Saturday night in Baton Rouge. They’ll all be plenty liquored up and quite mad enough if the Dawgs manage to take care of business. If you have sinus or allergy problems, take some meds! Y’all don’t want them to notice you sniffing. They’ll think you’re intentionally evaluating that corndog scent, and it’s likely to rile ’em up. Tell your kids, if you’re foolhardy enough to take ’em, before you get there that it will smell like corndogs and that they are not, under any circumstances, to mention it. Once you’ve sat among them long enough, I’m sorry to say that you will absorb some of that corndog smell and begin to smell like corndogs yourself. Don’t bring it up! Don’t make distressed faces. Just shut up and sit there smelling like a corndog, and go shower after the game. Have fun and enjoy the game, but be careful! Remember who we’re dealing with.
The game, it appears, is going to be broadcast on ESPN. That’s where I’ll be watching it, but if any of you want to take this idea and run with it, you have my blessing. I hope to see you on TV.
Y’all realize, of course, that whoopin’ these swamp kitties is really going to mess up any chance we had of going under the radar and sneaking up on any other SEC opponent. I’ll take it though.
Hail State!