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Mississippi State football has never played these Big 10 teams

By Ethan Lee

STARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI - OCTOBER 08: Will Rogers #2 of the Mississippi State Bulldogs looks to pass during the game against the Arkansas Razorbacks at Davis Wade Stadium on October 08, 2022 in Starkville, Mississippi. (Photo by Justin Ford/Getty Images)
STARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI - OCTOBER 08: Will Rogers #2 of the Mississippi State Bulldogs looks to pass during the game against the Arkansas Razorbacks at Davis Wade Stadium on October 08, 2022 in Starkville, Mississippi. (Photo by Justin Ford/Getty Images) /
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Rutgers Scarlet Knights football coach Greg Schiano
PISCATAWAY, NJ – APRIL 29: Head coach Greg Schiano of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights reacts during their Scarlet-White spring football game at SHI Stadium on April 29, 2023 in Piscataway, New Jersey. (Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images) /

The Rutgers Scarlet Knights are an overlooked program that Mississippi State football hasn’t met yet

One of the newest members of the Big Ten, Rutgers doesn’t exactly have a ton of prestige as a program right now. College football isn’t as big in New Jersey as it once was (or currently is in places like much of the Midwest or the South), but the Scarlet Knights were one of the very first teams to play college football.

There’s a lot of history there!

Unfortunately for Rutgers football fans, recent history hasn’t been as kind to the Scarlet Knights as the first years of college football was. And life in the Big Ten has been tough to watch for Rutgers fans.

Greg Schiano returned to Rutgers a little while back to be the head coach for the Scarlet Knights (again). Right now, Schiano is hoping to elevate the Scarlet Knights out of the Big Ten’s cellar and into a competent, bowl contending team.

The last time Rutgers even made a bowl was back in 2021 and the last time the Scarlet Knights happened to win a bowl game was all the way back in 2014.

Things have been rough for Rutgers!

Mississippi State football fans are familiar with dreadful losses and deflating experiences, but Rutgers is really having a rough time. It seems unlikely that these two teams will meet any time soon with the most likely method of that game being scheduled being a bowl game. So, maybe some day?

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