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MISSISSIPPI STATEGAME UNIVERSITYFOUR Primary Contact: Joe Galbraith • [email protected] • Office - 662.325.0967 • Cell - 662.418.3970 Secondary Contact: KyleSouth Niblett • [email protected] Alabama (1-2, • Office -0-0 662.325.0972 Sun • Cell Belt) - 662.418.9139 at Game One • Mississippi State (0-0, 0-0 SEC) at Memphis (0-0,Mississippi 0-0 C-USA) • Thursday, Sept. State 1, 2011 •(3-0, Liberty Bowl 1-0 • 7:10 SEC) p.m. CT • FSN Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012 - Davis Wade Stadium - 6 p.m. - Pay-Per-View eneral ame nformatIon G G I BULLDOGS LOOK TO CONTINUE HOT START DOGS DOING IT ON BOTH SIDES OF BALL Mississippi State enters its contest with South Alabama with State has dominated its first two opponents on the score- Team InformaTIon & STaTS MISSISSIPPI STATE South alabama its first 3-0 record since 1999. The Bulldogs take on the Jaguars board, posting a combined 114-43 margin. The Bulldogs are 23 / 23 . Ranking (AP / USA Today) . .NR / NR at 6 p.m. Saturday, in a game which will be broadcast on pay-per- one of only four SEC team ranked in the top half of the league Dan Mullen . Head Coach . .Joey Jones view. State hasn’t begun a season with a 4-0 overall record since in both scoring offense and scoring defense (Alabama, LSU, 24-17 . Career Record . .27-13 1999, and only gotten off to a perfect mark after four weeks five South Carolina). 24-17 . Record at School . 24-6 times in school history and only once since 1965. 2012 Stats TURNOVERS TELL STORY 3-0 . Record . 1-2 MISSISSIPPI STATE TO PLAY ON PAY-PAY-VIEW In recent seasons, no stat has been a better harbinger of suc- 1-0 . Conference Record . 0-0 Mississippi State’s football game this weekend will be avail- cess for the Bulldogs than turnover margin. Over the last three- 38.0 . Points Per Game . 15.7 able via pay-per-view in the states of Alabama and Mississippi. plus seasons, State has won 19 of 20 games when victorious in 14.3 . Points Allowed Per Game . 22.3 413.3 . Total Offense Per Game . .300.3 The game will be offered as part of ESPN’s Gameplan outside the turnover column. Conversely, the Bulldogs have won just 193.7 . Rushing Yards Per Game . 95.7 the area. Calling the action will be Bart Gregory, with former four times out of 12 when losing the turnover battle. 219.7 . Passing Yards Per Game . 204.7 Mississippi State head coach Jackie Sherrill serving as color Through three games, State ranks atop the nation along with 351.0 . Yards Allowed Per Game . .300.0 analyst. Alabama with a +11 turnover margin. 141.0 . Rushing Yards Allowed Per Game . 110.7 The Bulldogs are tied for the national lead with both 12 210.0 . Passing Yards Allowed Per Game . 189.3 NON-CONFERENCE STREAK ON LINE AGAINST USA forced turnovers and one lost turnover. (Three teams have zero Individual Comparison Head coach Dan Mullen’s teams have had remarkable suc- turnovers lost, however none of the three have played three Tyler Russell . Leading Passer . C.J. Bennett cess against out-of-conference foes. The Bulldogs have won 14 games.) 46-79-0-651 yds-8 TD 36-59-2-367 yds-2 TD of 16 non-conference tilts, including 13 straight, dating back to LaDarius Perkins . .Leading Rusher . Demetre Baker 46 att.-320 yds.-4 TD 39 att.-183 yds-1 TD Mullen’s arrival in 2009. DEFENSE HAD BEEN DOMINANT, ROUGH DAY AT TROY Chad Bumphis . Leading Receiver . T.J. Glover The school record for consecutive non-conference victories The Mississippi State defense allowed only one touchdown 10 rec.-236 yds-5 TD 7 rec.-117 yds-0 TD is 18, set from 1941-47. With a win Saturday, the Bulldogs would through the first two games. Only the 1998 and 1991 defenses Cameron Lawrence . Leading Tackler . Jake Johnson secure the second longest streak, which was 13, set from 1939- allowed less since 1986. Additionally, the stretch of eight- 26 tackles, 1.5 TFL, 1.0 Sacks 30 tackles, 4.0 TFL, 1.0 Sacks 41. straight SEC quarters without allowing a touchdown is the lon- gest since 1998, when the Bulldog D went nine straight quarters 2012 mISSISSIppI STaTe Schedule WINNING STREAK IS ONE OF NATION’S LONGEST without allowing a TD in conference action. Date Opponent Result/Time Last season Mississippi State closed the year with a win over Against Troy, the Bulldog defense allowed 572 yards and 30 Sept. 1 Jackson State (FSN) W, 56-9 Ole Miss in the annual Battle for the Golden Egg before defeat- first downs. However, the Bulldogs forced four turnovers, a pair Sept. 8 * Auburn (ESPN) W, 28-10 Sept. 15 at Troy (ESPN3) W, 30-24 ing Wake Forest in the Music City Bowl. With wins in the first of three-and-outs and held the Trojans to a field goal on the last Sept. 22 South Alabama (PPV) 6 p.m. three games this season, State now has a five-game winning possession of the game. Oct. 6 * at Kentucky streak for the first time since winning six straight in 2010. Oct. 13 * Tennessee State’s five-game streak is tied for seventh nationally among DEFENSIVE LINE, LINEBACKERS LOOK FOR TFLs Oct. 20 Middle Tennessee all Football Bowl Subdivision teams heading into next weekend. Defensive coordinator Chris Wilson has made it a priority to Oct. 27 * at Alabama get into the offense’s backfield and his team has responded. Last Nov. 3 * TExas A&M MULLEN SET TO CLIMB VICTORY CHARTS THIS SEASON year, State average nearly seven tackles for loss per game, good Nov. 10 * at LSU Head coach Dan Mullen has led his Mississippi State teams to for 27th nationally and fifth in the SEC. Nov. 17 * Arkansas 24 victories in his first three-plus seasons, good for fifth among The Bulldogs have posted only 13 tackles behind the line Nov. 24 * at Ole Miss all head coaches in school history. in the first three games, with nine against Auburn. State is cur- SerIeS hISTory Only three other coaches in Bulldog history have eclipsed the rently ranked 106th among all defenses, averaging just over 4 Overall Series Record: . .Never Met 20-win mark over their first four seasons, Allyn McKeen’s teams TFLs per game. in Starkville: . N/A posted 36 wins from 1938-41, Jackie Sherrill compiled 26 from Last meeting: . N/A 1991-94 and Emory Bellard won 25 from 1979-82. PASS DEFENSE HAS IMPRESSED AT TIMES In Starkville: . N/A The Bulldog defense has picked off a national-best seven Last 10 meetings: . N/A MULLEN WINNING PERCENTAGE IMPRESSES passes and allowed opponents only an 102 passer rating, good Current Series Win Streak: . N/A The Bulldogs have won 24 of 41 games under head coach for sixth in the SEC and 21st nationally. This week State faces BroadcaST InformaTIon Dan Mullen for a winning percentage of .585. It is the highest a South Alabama team which owns the 93rd-ranked passing Kickoff . 6 p.m. CT winning percentage by a Mississippi State head man since offense in the NCAA, averaging 204.7 ypg. TV . Pay-Per-View (Bart Gregory and Jackie Sherrill) college football Hall of Famer Darrell Royal had a .600 winning South Alabama enters this weekend’s game with 614 passing Radio . Mississippi State Radio Network percentage in 1954 and 1955. yards and a 121 passing efficiency. Announcers . .Jim Ellis, Matt Wyatt and John Correro XM Radio Network . Channel 191 Sirius Radio Network . Channel 94 in Starkville . .107.9, WFCA Sunday 16 Monday 17 Tuesday 18 Wednesday .19 Thursday 20 Friday 21 Saturday 22 12 noon 1 p.m. 5:45 p.m. 11:50 a.m. 7 p.m. No Media Availability 6 p.m. Coach Mullen Teleconference Coach Mullen Weekly Press Coach Mullen and selected SEC Teleconference Coach Mullen Radio Show Kickoff vs. South Alabama Conference - Bryan Building players available following (Buffalo Wild Wings) practice Post-Practice Postgame 1:30 p.m. Player availability if necessary Coach Mullen and selected Assistants available after players and coaches available Mullen following game. 2012 mISSISSIppI STaTe fooTBall noTeS • Game 4 vS. SouTh alaBama DEFENSIVE BACKFIELD LOADED WITH EXPERIENCED LAWRENCE WAS TACKLING MACHINE IN 2011 MSU STREAKS & 2012 RECORDS PLAYMAKERS Senior linebacker Cameron Lawrence finished the 2011 Overall Streak 2012 Johnthan Banks is far from the lone star in the Mississippi campaign with 123 total tackles, good for third in the SEC and Overall W5 3-0 State defensive backfield entering this season. Seniors Corey the most by a Bulldog since Mario Haggan tallied 132 in 2000. Home W3 2-0 Broomfield and Darius Slay along with junior Nickoe Whitley Lawrence can become the first Mississippi State player to Away W1 1-0 have played substantial amounts of football for the Bulldogs. record 100 or more tackles in consecutive seasons since Dwayne Neutral W3 — Broomfield has played in 41 games with 31 starts, Whitley in Curry in 1994 and 19995. He’s posted 26 tackles in the first three SEC Games W2 1-0 25 with 21 starts and Slay in 15 games with three starting nods. games, including double digits in each of the last two weeks. Non-Conference Games W13 2-0 Combined, the starting four have played in 122 games and Day Games W1 1-0 earned 90 starts. They’ve also intercepted 35 career passes, with RUSSELL BECOMING LEADER Night Games W4 2-0 eight returned for touchdowns.