r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 3h ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] LSU Defeats Mississippi State 31-0

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Mississippi State 0 0 0 0 0
LSU 14 7 10 0 31
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u/GeorgeWashingtonCuh Auburn Tigers • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors 2h ago

I hate to see this for Mississippi State. I don't know if they need to recruit better or use the portal more, but you can't hinge your entire season on two players always being healthy and on their A game. Kamario Taylor and Fluff Bothwell are great players, but you need to have more than two capable guys on your roster if you want to win games.

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u/FloodDawg Mississippi State • Memphis 1h ago

Even if the lines are the hardest positions to portal, in the current era, the lack of depth is an indictment on Lebby as a head coach. If he fired Hutzler after year 1, the defense would have more depth. That he hasn’t recruited or developed o-linemen is even more on Lebby

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u/LJGremlin Mississippi State Bulldogs 28m ago

Yes! Yes! Yes! Lebby’s failure to act quickly on the Hutzler debacle is still being felt. I think some fans now say give him another year or two with Arnett but his failure to identify an issue after year one shouldn’t buy him more time.

I’ve been against the Lebby hire from day one. And even though we’ve had some fun exciting wins we have still yet to see this play out to where his hiring has paid off.

The lack of depth and the embarrassment of an offensive line is on him. I said here going into the Alabama game that it was a great start to the season but we could easily be staring 4-4 in the face going into Vandy/Auburn/Tennessee Tech/Ole Miss. And based on what I’ve seen from those four I’m thinking 2-2 is realistic with 1-3 being worst case scenario.

Going into the season I felt 8 wins was needed for me to say let’s see what next year brings. 7 wins or less should be terminable. But I could see him surviving that. 6 or less should be fired without question.

We got caught up in the moment of ASU last year and it came crumbling down. We may be, and probably are, in the middle of it happening this year.