Five thoughts on Mississippi State football demolishing Louisiana-Lafayette

The Bulldogs created plenty of pressure and chaos for Louisiana-Lafayette’s offense

Louisiana-Lafayette doesn’t have the most powerful offense in the country. The Ragin’ Cajuns don’t boast the most talented quarterbacks and receivers and running backs and tight ends and offensive linemen. They’re certainly not the most dangerous offense that the Mississippi State football team will face this season.

However, this was a good test for the Bulldogs and MSU seemingly passed it with flying colors.

The Ragin’ Cajuns are going to spread the ball around a bit. They did a great job of that in the first half. And though we’ve already talked about how well MSU’s defense played as a whole, it’s important that we talk about how the Bulldogs created pressure for Louisiana-Lafayette’s offense.

The opposing offense tonight was designed to keep MSU’s defense on its heels and away from ULL’s quarterbacks. However, State still sacked the Ragin’ Cajuns twice and then tackled them in the backfield 8 total times.

MSU forced Louisiana-Lafayette to be as innovative and quick as possible if they were going to keep up. And the Bulldogs won on that front. A lot of that had to do with talent. But MSU still won on that front.