National Media Contradicts Itself With Miss. State

By now I’m sure you’ve seen your fair share of predictions from various outlets and publications for the 2015 college football season and while there is some consistency within those outlets and publications, there are those varying opinions.

Everyone has their own rankings and systems that they use for projecting team win totals, player of the year, coaches and more.

But – there are two consistent trends we are seeing with Mississippi State and what we have witnessed is a massive contradiction by the national media when it comes to the Bulldogs, as Brian Hadad – General Manager for Bulldog Sports Radio points out in his recent Instant Replay Podcast on BSR.

Most all media outlets have pegged Mississippi State quarterback Dak Prescott as the favorite to win SEC quarterback of the year, but most outlets also have the Bulldogs pegged dead last in the SEC West or next to last with varying records of 7-5 to 6-6.

Saturday Down South recently did a piece titled, Charting the Predictions: Where SEC teams Rank in Every Major Magazine and only two have the Bulldogs in the preseason top twenty – five and that’s the Sporting News and Athlon Sports.

Hadad lays out the claim that if you look back in history ( he went back 40-years), you cannot rank a team that low and have the SEC quarterback of the year on most years.  Only Kentucky and Vanderbilt did that and it was over 20-years ago.

Over the forty-year analysis, Hadad found that 36 out of 40, first team All SEC quarterbacks won eight or more games on the year they were crowned with such an award.

Dak Prescott won this very award last year after winning ten games.

Notable quarterbacks who won this award and then returned to do it again, as Prescott is predicted to do by most publications, are Danny Wuerffel at Florida, Tim Tebow at Florida and Johnny Manziel at Texas A&M.

As Hadad and his co-host Bob Carskadon point out, you just about cannot have one and have the other.  “Mississippi State will not have the All SEC quarterback and go play in the Birmingham Bowl”, Carskadon said. 

So this tells us one of a couple of things.  One, the national media truly doesn’t have a clue when putting out preseason projects or two – they really don’t believe Prescott will win this award and I personally am leaning with number one.

History shows us, if Prescott stays healthy, you can just about bank on the Bulldogs back in a New Year’s Day Bowl game – a far cry from 6-6  and a far cry from the mass contradiction the National Media has displayed this offseason when discussing Mississippi State.

You can hear Hadad and Carskadon’s full breakdown of this topic by clicking the link below.