With the 2024 football season in the rearview mirror for Mississippi State fans, attention has turned fully to the future of the program, as well as locking-in on other sports. There'll be plenty to occupy everyone's attention for the next several months, but what about in the dead of summer when all sports have come to an end? It seems that Netflix may have a solution for Bulldog fans to get their fix of MSU athletics.
Mississippi State Bulldogs to be featured in Netflix series highlighting the 2024 SEC football season
On Wednesday, news broke that Netflix will be producing a new "docuseries" highlighting SEC football. The 8-episode series, which focuses on the 2024 season, is set to release in the summer of 2025, and it appears that the Mississippi State Bulldogs will be featured.
Per reporting from The Athletic's Seth Emerson (subscription required), every SEC program expect for Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, and Texas will be featured in the Netflix series. That, of course, would mean that Mississippi State will be a part of the action.
SEC football programs not participating in Netflix series are Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ole Miss & Texas, source said. 1st reported by @SethWEmerson. Remaining 10 SEC schools will be featured in Netflix series next summer
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) December 18, 2024
According to the release, the series will give fans a look into the world of SEC football, both on and off the field. The day to day lives of players and coaches in college football's premier conference will be highlighted with access you otherwise would never get in this sport.
Sports-centric docuseries of this sort have become a key focus for Netflix in recent years. The company has seen major success with series like Formula 1: Drive to Survive, Full Swing, and Quarterback.
Will Mississippi State fans have any interest in looking back on the 2024 season?
It will be interesting to see how excited (or not) Mississippi State fans will be to watch this new Netflix series next summer. You'd think there'd be no question about wanting to see the Bulldogs featured in something like this, as the program will be getting attention it rarely receives.
But the elephant in the room is that with the focus being on the 2024 season, in which the Bulldogs went 2-10, the MSU faithful may not be all the fired-up to get an up close look at the program. They'd inevitably be looking back on a lot of painful and frustrating moments. That's not exactly fun.
However, I would imagine most fans will still be interested in tuning in. It's nearly impossible to not be curious about how things operate behind the scenes, and it's a chance to learn more about the players and coaches as people. And if nothing else, perhaps the series can shed some light on what went wrong for Mississippi State in 2024.