2014 FOOTBALL GAME 12 NOTES November 29, 2014 GAME 12: # 4/4/4 MSU vs. #18/19 OLE MISS 2:30 p.m. CST • CBS Mississippi State Ole Miss Oxford, Miss. Record 10-1 (6-1 SEC) Record 8-3 (4-3 SEC) Vaught-Hemingway Stadium Streak W1 Streak L1 Capacity: 60,580 Ranking No. 4 Associated Press Ranking No. 18 Associated Press No. 4 USA Today Coaches No. 19 USA Today Coaches SCHEDULE (10-1, 6-1 SEC) No. 4 CFB Playoff No. 8 CFB Playoff DATE OPPONENT TV RESULT Last Game Nov. 22 in Starkville, Miss. Last Game Nov. 22 in Fayetteville, Ark. AUGUST (1-0) def. Vanderbilt, 51-0 lost to Arkansas, 30-0 30 Southern Miss SECN W, 49-0 Head Coach Dan Mullen Head Coach Hugh Freeze SEPTEMBER (3-0) Career Record 46-29/sixth year Career Record 53-21/sixth year 6 UAB FSN W, 47-34 MSU Record same UM Record 23-14/fourth year 13 at South Alabama ESPNews W, 35-3 Mullen vs. UM 4-1 Freeze vs. MSU 1-2 20 at #8/8 LSU * ESPN W, 34-29 STORYLINES OCTOBER (3-0) 4 #6/7 Texas A&M * ESPN W, 48-31 No. 4 MSU, No. 18 Ole Miss Meet In Historic Egg Bowl 11 #2/2 Auburn * CBS W, 38-23 No. 4 Mississippi State (10-1) seeks the first 11-win season in school history as the Bulldogs renew 25 at Kentucky * CBS W, 45-31 their Egg Bowl rivalry with No. 18/19 Ole Miss (8-3) at 2:30 p.m. CT Saturday from Vaught- NOVEMBER (3-1) Hemingway Stadium. This will be the first ever Egg Bowl televised by CBS. 1 Arkansas * ESPN2 W, 17-10 • For the eighth straight week, MSU is ranked in the top four of the polls and ranked overall for 8 UT Martin (HC) SECN W, 45-16 the 10th consecutive week, which is the fifth-longest streak in school history. 15 at #4/3/5 Alabama * CBS L, 20-25 • The Bulldogs are in second place in the SEC West with a 6-1 mark. MSU is still mathematically 22 Vanderbilt * SECN W, 51-0 alive to claim its first SEC West title since 1998 but will need to defeat Ole Miss and have Auburn 29 at #18/19 Ole Miss * CBS 2:30 p.m. beat Alabama in Tuscaloosa on Saturday night in order to advance to Atlanta. DECEMBER (0-0) • Ole Miss leads the all-time series 61-43-6, but MSU is 4-1 in Egg Bowls under Dan Mullen. The 6 SEC Championship CBS 3 p.m. Bulldogs won last year’s meeting in dramatic fashion as Dak Prescott, battling injury, came off the Atlanta, Ga. bench to lead a 17-10 overtime victory. MSU has outscored Ole Miss, 161-87, under Mullen. • Dan Mullen, a National Coach of the Year candidate, is in his sixth season as head coach. At COACHING STAFF 46-29, he is in third place in MSU all-time wins. Mullen owns the highest winning percentage as a On the Sideline coach at MSU since Allyn McKeen from 1939-48 (.764). Prior to Mullen’s arrival, MSU was 21-42. Dan Mullen, head coach • MSU is seeking the fi rst seven-win SEC season in school history. Th e Bulldogs are the only top- Geoff Collins, defensive coordinator/LBs 10 ranked team this week who will face a ranked team on the road (will be second in three weeks). Billy Gonzales, co-offensive coordinator/WR • Dak Prescott, a Heisman Trophy candidate, passing games having achieved the feat four times John Hevesy, co-offensive coordinator/OL in 2014. He’s scored 13 TDs this year (12 rush, 1 receiving) and been responsible for a single- Greg Knox, running backs season school-record 35 TDs (23 passing, 12 rushing). He is the school-record holder in career Deshea Townsend, cornerbacks TDs responsible with 66 (29 rush, 37 pass) and 200-yard passing games with 15. Dak is one David Turner, defensive line passing TD away from tying the single-season school record. • MSU is coming off a 51-0 shutout of Vanderbilt to complete a 7-0 home mark. The margin of victory was MSU’s largest over an SEC opponent since beating Sewanee, 68-0, on Oct. 31, 1936. In Th e Booth • MSU leads the nation in redzone defense. Opponents have made 37 trips and scored 22 times Tony Hughes, safeties (.595). In 37 trips, opponents have managed only 13 touchdowns (.351). Brian Johnson, quarterbacks • All-America candidate DE Preston Smith is fourth in the SEC in tackles for loss with 13.5 and Scott Sallach, tight ends sixth in the league in sacks with 8.0. Smith is tops on the squad in quarterback hurries with 15. AIRWAVES BY THE NUMBERS MSU Sports Radio Network 511.7 12 Jim Ellis, play-by-play Average yards of total offense per game by Different MSU players who have caught a Matt Wyatt, analyst MSU, No. 1 in the SEC and No. 9 nationally touchdown pass this season, most in the nation John Correro, sideline 2 179.7 Sirius/XM Satellite Radio Shutouts by the MSU defense this season, the QB rating of Dak Prescott on third down, Sirius 91, XM 91 most in a single season since 1998 third-best in the FBS (thrown 10 TDs on 3rd) CBS .601 429 Verne Lundquist, play-by-play Career completion percentage by Dak Prescott, Points this season by MSU, a school record Gary Danielson, analyst a school record (363-of-604) breaking the old mark of 390 in 2000 Allie LaForce, sideline Facebook.com/HailStateFB @HailStateFB @HailStateFB YouTube.com/HailState FOOTBALL MEDIA SERVICES Coach Dan Mullen MSU Players/Assistant Coaches Monday Press Conference Tuesday Post Practice Coach Dan Mullen will conduct a weekly press conference each Monday Offensive players and offensive assistant coaches are available by request prior to an MSU game in the media room at the Leo Seal Jr. Football following Tuesday’s practice at approximately 6:20 p.m. CT in the media Complex (third floor). Coach Mullen’s press conference begins at 1 p.m. room at the Seal Football Complex. Please email all player/assistant coach CT. The press conference can also be seen live on SEC Network+ via requests to Bill Martin ([email protected]) and Kyle Niblett WatchESPN.com or the WatchESPN app. The open week Mondays (Sept. ([email protected]) 24 hours in advance. No requests will be 22, Oct. 13), there will not be a press conference. taken Tuesday afternoon. SEC Teleconference Wednesday Post Practice Coach Dan Mullen will join the league’s other 13 coaches on the SEC’s Defensive players and defensive assistant coaches are available by request weekly Wednesday teleconference. Mullen’s 10-minute segment is sched- following Wednesday’s practice at approximately 5:50 p.m. CT in the uled from 11:50 a.m.-12 p.m. CT. The teleconference phone number can media room at the Seal Football Complex. 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