How will Mississippi State football respond to the Kentucky loss?

Mississippi State football implodes on the road against the Wildcats. How will this team respond?

That Mississippi State football game against Kentucky was bad. In other words, it wasn’t good. Where do we start with exactly how bad that game was? There’s plenty of things to be upset about in regards to Mississippi State’s performance. MSU was beat in every aspect of the game and it happened against the Kentucky Wildcats.

It doesn’t matter that this game was on the road. It doesn’t matter that Kentucky might actually be a pretty good team. All that matters right now is that Mississippi State lost in absolutely embarrassing fashion.

So, that brings us back to that question: where do we start with exactly how bad that game was?

As with all games, I’ve got a few thoughts on how the Mississippi State football team played. I can give you a hint: they didn’t play well. And, well, we’ll get to my thoughts on this game another time.

That weekly five thoughts on the game post will come soon. Before I get to that, I need some more time to digest what happened tonight.

MSU lost 28-7 and it honestly felt like the game shouldn’t have been that close. Kentucky manhandled a supposedly physical Mississippi State team and beat the Bulldogs at their own game.

MSU was supposed to be the better team. If you look at historical trends and the excitement around the team coming into this matchup, it made sense to pick the Mississippi State Bulldogs. But the Bulldogs fell flat. Benny Snell ran all over the field on MSU. MSU’s offensive line appeared to be nuked.

To answer that other question: it doesn’t really matter because nothing went well for the visiting Bulldogs. And that brings me to a new question: how does the Mississippi State football team respond to this game?

Joe Moorhead has already taken responsibility for the debacle that we witnessed, but that doesn’t necessarily answer that question.

Will the Bulldogs use this as an opportunity to fix some incredibly glaring weaknesses? Or, well, will MSU completely collapse after an absolute obliteration by the hands of the Kentucky Wildcats when they face potentially much tougher competition up ahead?

Given the number of penalties that we saw the Bulldogs commit tonight, it’s clear that the Bulldogs lost composure and fell apart in a hostile environment. There will be tougher road tests ahead, namely that one to Tuscaloosa to face Nick Saban.

All offseason, Moorhead preached setting a championship standard. The Bulldogs didn’t meet that tonight. MSU fell short and there’s no excusing any of the shortcomings against Kentucky.

How will the Bulldogs respond to this?

Mississippi State has another emotional matchup coming up soon. The Bulldogs will have to get several issues ironed out before they face Dan Mullen and his new team next week.