We're 4-3 with a top five win on our resume, and the funny thing is, if we hadn't found a hundred and one ways to screw the pooch vs OSU, we'd be 5-2, with two losses to the top two teams in the league, basically right where we left off when Bobby was run out of town. Instead, we're wringing our hands.
Ah well.
Mississippi St is one of two "lay up" wins left on our schedule (along with La Tech). If we want a bowl game, we have to win these two. If we want better than just crawling our way to .500 then we have Ole Miss, Texass, and Missouri to deal with. That's for later.
Miss St gave A&M fits last week, but ultimately they lost. Will they come into our game with renewed confidence or with their spirits broken for good? Hopefully, it's the latter.
COW-SHAPED COACH - 31
COWBELL-CLANGING FANS - 30
Hogs - 38
Dogs - 34
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Arkansas 2-0
This is exactly the type of game Pittman loses seemingly every year. The "should be a layup but our lazy, dumbass coach can't be bothered to prep so we lose to a supposedly inferior opponent" is a Pittman specialty. Plus, these guys have owned our asses the last decade, having won 9 of the last 12 (let that sink in).
I'm also willing to bet anything that Pittman is already game planning for Ole Miss, which will make this a redux of the 2022 Liberty game.
Need more cowbell - 27
Need a new coach - 21
I agree we have no kicker. That being said....
Us: 21 (we miss two FGs)
Them: 27 (they make 2 FGs)
Hogs 35
Dawgs 31
Revenge on the strip. The Starkvegas strip to be exact. Our players will come out mean and angry for pissing down their legs against LSU.
WOOPIG 27
Aggie Bulldogs 23
More Cow Bell 28
More Cow Dung 24
Us 7
Them 3
Out of 133 teams, MSU is 130th in 3rd down defense, 121st in passing defense efficiency. We're 9th in 3rd down conversion %. We need to put up some numbers.
We win 41-24.
Quote from: Gambler on Oct 23, 2024, 03:23 PMOut of 133 teams, MSU is 130th in 3rd down defense, 121st in passing defense efficiency. We're 9th in 3rd down conversion %. We need to put up some numbers.
We win 41-24.
That's not how we operate. We lose this game. Then we lose a crazy but good game to Ole Miss, somehow whip Texas, struggle with La Tech but win, and get demolished by Missouri.
The team will be flat. No fire, no give a shit.
Hogs -14
Them - 24
Quote from: Sus-Scrofa on Oct 23, 2024, 03:32 PMThat's not how we operate. We lose this game. Then we lose a crazy but good game to Ole Miss, somehow whip Texas, struggle with La Tech but win, and get demolished by Missouri.
I can see all that
MSU 12
Ark 5
I don't really care anymore.
Us: whatever
Them: whatever +1
I see a typical Sam Pittman special: hogs come out flat, get a lead, and shit in their britches to lose. But he loves these kids.
Fat Sam's: 20
Klan: 31
13-10 state win.
Almost always shit the bed in Starkville - 17
Lives there so they don't mind the smell - 28
I'm off of the "total optimism" bandwagon I've been on since Tennessee, I've learned my lesson(for the millionth time).
Hogs - 27
Cowbells - 28
Hogs May Be Bad 47
Stankville Smells Worse 16
Hogs roll.
Way too much optimism in here again.
Random, but when was the last time we had a good football team in a presidential election year?
Quote from: bigpig on Oct 24, 2024, 07:08 PMRandom, but when was the last time we had a good football team in a presidential election year?
1988 for the "W." (HW)
Let THAT sink in.
EDIT: And there were only three other before that, including the biggest one.
If this happens I will be displeased
https://x.com/cfbhome/status/1849134432273248495?s=46&t=DTGVKlgNTKh5Nq29PdZsdg
Quote from: bigpig on Oct 24, 2024, 07:08 PMRandom, but when was the last time we had a good football team in a presidential election year?
It's an interesting question. I went back to '64 to plot it out. Generally we've been middling to shitty in election years with the exception of 64, 68, and 88. We've also had 4 new coaches in election years (Hatfield, Petrino, Smile, Pittman).
1964: 12-0
1968: 10-1
1972: 6-5
1976: 5-5-1 (JFB's last year)
1980: 7-5
1984: 7-4-1 (Hatfield's first year)
1988: 10-2
1992: 3-7-1 (Citadel, welcome to the SEC bitches)
1996: 4-7
2000: 6-6
2004: 5-6 (year 1 of Nutt's 2 year pass)
2008: 5-7 (Petrino's first year)
2012: 4-8 (Smile year)
2016: 7-6 (beginning of the end for Bert)
2020: 3-7 (Pittman's first year)
Quote from: Hogfan58 on Oct 24, 2024, 07:40 AMI don't really care anymore.
Us: whatever
Them: whatever +1
🎶 hello darkness, my old friend 🎶
This is a classic Houston Nutt type game where we would go down there and beat them by three touchdowns unexpectedly. I don't think Sam is half the coach Nutt was when it comes to motivation. Sam seems to have checked out. In hindsight Nutt deserves some credit for being able to motivate a team at specific times even when he seemed to have checked out himself. Nutt was ten or twelve IQ points from being a fabulous coach.
Quote from: The Whyte Boar on Oct 25, 2024, 09:31 AMThis is a classic Houston Nutt type game where we would go down there and beat them by three touchdowns unexpectedly. I don't think Sam is half the coach Nutt was when it comes to motivation. Sam seems to have checked out.
If Sam somehow pulls one out this week, take out a home equity loan and drain your kids' college accounts and put everything you can on Ole Miss next week.
Pittman is where Bert was in 2016, where every single week was a swing back and forth between win and loss because we'd spend the week after a win sniffing our farts and reading our press clippings. That year we went 10 straight weeks alternating wins and losses. It was something to behold.
Quote from: Feral on Oct 25, 2024, 09:46 AMIf Sam somehow pulls one out this week, take out a home equity loan and drain your kids' college accounts and put everything you can on Ole Miss next week.
Pittman is where Bert was in 2016, where every single week was a swing back and forth between win and loss because we'd spend the week after a win sniffing our farts and reading our press clippings. That year we went 10 straight weeks alternating wins and losses. It was something to behold.
I do agree with that. Sam is way more predictable than Nutt was. You can literally see Sam let off the gas and then go "Oh shit" and put the peddle down after a loss or close win over a nobody.
But whereas Nutt's shtick was still moderately working even in his last year where we went 8-5 and beat LSU, I think Sam's is really close to failing altogether. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see us lose out in conference. Of course, I wouldn't be all that surprised to see us win a couple more either.
Quote from: The Whyte Boar on Oct 25, 2024, 10:06 AMI wouldn't be surprised at all to see us lose out in conference. Of course, I wouldn't be all that surprised to see us win a couple more either.
That is really going out on a limb there.
Hogs 42
Misstake 27
Quote from: Usafhawg on Oct 25, 2024, 11:27 AMThat is really going out on a limb there.
It's Sam Pittman. Regardless of which side of the tree I edge out on limb, he is going to saw that motherfucker off behind me.
Quote from: Feral on Oct 25, 2024, 05:48 AMIt's an interesting question. I went back to '64 to plot it out. Generally we've been middling to shitty in election years with the exception of 64, 68, and 88. We've also had 4 new coaches in election years (Hatfield, Petrino, Smile, Pittman).
1964: 12-0
1968: 10-1
1972: 6-5
1976: 5-5-1 (JFB's last year)
1980: 7-5
1984: 7-4-1 (Hatfield's first year)
1988: 10-2
1992: 3-7-1 (Citadel, welcome to the SEC bitches)
1996: 4-7
2000: 6-6
2004: 5-6 (year 1 of Nutt's 2 year pass)
2008: 5-7 (Petrino's first year)
2012: 4-8 (Smile year)
2016: 7-6 (beginning of the end for Bert)
2020: 3-7 (Pittman's first year)
I calculated the answer in my head then went back to see the instances prior to that (just back to '64).
I had a more cynical recap:
2020 Sam's Mulligan
2016 Bert and His Five Finger Discount Crew
2012 Smile
2008 BMFP Year 1
2004 Dale Meh
2000 What Happened in Vegas
1996 Found On the Road Dead
1992 Eat Crowe
1988 SWC Champs
1984 Liberty Bowl Runner Up
1980 Hall of Fame Bowl Champs
1976 Broyles Swan Song
1972 Broyles Meh
1968 Broyles Sugar Bowl Champs
1964 THE Champs!
Quote from: Thin Red Swine on Oct 25, 2024, 04:02 PMI calculated the answer in my head then went back to see the instances prior to that (just back to '64).
I had a more cynical recap:
2020 Sam's Mulligan
2016 Bert and His Five Finger Discount Crew
2012 Smile
2008 BMFP Year 1
2004 Dale Meh
2000 What Happened in Vegas
1996 Found On the Road Dead
1992 Eat Crowe
1988 SWC Champs
1984 Liberty Bowl Runner Up
1980 Hall of Fame Bowl Champs
1976 Broyles Swan Song
1972 Broyles Meh
1968 Broyles Sugar Bowl Champs
1964 THE Champs!
If your descriptions were a graph, it'd be a downward trend for sure. A few anomalies, but you could still ski down it.
Oh yeah, I forgot to make a prediction.
Polish That Bell 27
Polish That Turd 24
Hogs - 12
MSU - 37
They scored 28 against Florida, 31 against Georgia, and 24 against A&M in the last 3 games. We might need 35 to beat them.
https://x.com/bbakerhogs/status/1850040204549058675?s=46&t=DTGVKlgNTKh5Nq29PdZsdg
Quote from: RPL on Oct 24, 2024, 04:38 PMHogs May Be Bad 47
Stankville Smells Worse 16
Hogs roll.
Unless someone says someone else captured the vibe of the win better, I think this is it.
Quote from: Show-Me Hog on Oct 26, 2024, 03:53 PMUnless someone says someone else captured the vibe of the win better, I think this is it.
:D
Apply the formula.
But I agree this time.
Quote from: Show-Me Hog on Oct 26, 2024, 03:53 PMUnless someone says someone else captured the vibe of the win better, I think this is it.
Why,thank you!