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Mississippi State football: 5 concerns from Joe Moorhead’s first season

By Ethan Lee

STARKVILLE, MS - OCTOBER 27: Head coach Joe Moorhead of the Mississippi State Bulldogs and head coach Jimbo Fisher of the Texas A&M Aggies greet after a game at Davis Wade Stadium on October 27, 2018 in Starkville, Mississippi. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)
STARKVILLE, MS - OCTOBER 27: Head coach Joe Moorhead of the Mississippi State Bulldogs and head coach Jimbo Fisher of the Texas A&M Aggies greet after a game at Davis Wade Stadium on October 27, 2018 in Starkville, Mississippi. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images) /
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BATON ROUGE, LA – OCTOBER 20: Nick Fitzgerald #7 of the Mississippi State Bulldogs reacts during the second half against the LSU Tigers at Tiger Stadium on October 20, 2018 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images) /

Mississippi State’s offense was consistently inconsistent

Joe Moorhead arrived at Mississippi State heralded as an offensive guru. And rightfully so given his credentials. However, once things got going for the 2018 Mississippi State football season, the Bulldogs never really sustained any sort of offensive success throughout the year. MSU was up and down on offense in most of its games.

In the first three Mississippi State football games of the season, the Bulldogs averaged 50 points per game. Unsurprisingly, MSU won all three games, coming out on top of Stephen F. Austin, Kansas State, and the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns.

Through MSU’s fourth, fifth, and sixth game, the Bulldogs managed to average 12 points per game. In the process, MSU came up short against Kentucky and Florida and then defeated the Auburn Tigers.

The seventh, eighth, and ninth games of the year saw MSU averaging 25.3 points per game and losing to LSU but also beating Texas A&M and Louisiana Tech.

And then in the final four games of the season, Mississippi State averaged 27.3 points, but the Bulldogs were shut out against Alabama and lost to Iowa. The two wins that came in those four games came against Ole Miss and Arkansas.

MSU wasn’t able to consistently maintain any sort of success on offense and it cost Joe Moorhead’s team five games this season.

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