Welcome to the Barnyard with Steve Roberts and as always I am your good friend and host Steve Roberts and here on the hump day

addition of the yard. That's three days in a row. Probably getting sick of me by now. I'm getting sick of me by now. I'm ready to go play a football game. It's tomorrow night

battle for the golden egg. A chance for Mississippi State to recapture the egg and post an eight and four

regular season. That's what we projected this year, it's eight and four on this show. Some other

people were a little conservative, said seven and five, some worse than that. Some got a little

overly optimistic. Thought we could beat Georgia. I never thought we could. And some thought nine and three, but I think eight and four was pretty much on par with what people thought was kind of a best-case scenario for state this year. Of course, you get into the season, you begin to think, you know, hey, we should have beaten LSU. One could argue two or some games we probably should have lost.

I go back to that Auburn game and I was talking to the illustrious hind dog last night.

We speak regularly about college football and a variety of topics.

We talked about how in hindsight, you know, that went over Auburn looks a little bit better than it did maybe Sunday morning.

You know, like, oh, you know, we couldn't even get up to play this Auburn team

with an interim coach and they've had a coaching change and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

You look in hindsight and you look how hard that Auburn has played for Cadillac Williams

the last few weeks, you begin to realize that was a good win. Auburn's got some dudes. They weren't properly coached before now, but they got some dudes. That's a win. It's a good win. And I think if we had told you at the beginning of the year, you're going to beat Arkansas A&M and Auburn, you'd feel pretty good about life because you say, you know what? we get those three, we get our four non-conference games, pick up a one or two somewhere else. It's been a good season. And again, I think beginning of the year, the best case scenario is eight and four with the golden egg, and hopefully you win a ball game there and get the nine wins. And considering that many people forecasted Mississippi State to have the

most difficult schedule in the country, I think eight or nine wins this year is a win. You may

disagree. You're entitled to your opinion. I may not agree with it, but I won't begrudge you the fact that

you may disagree with me. We're going to talk about Ole Miss at depth in depth today. We're going to talk about what they do well, what maybe perhaps we've got to do to win a ball game, kind of look inside the season.

We're going to address some of these rumors that are out there kind of making their way around on both sides of the rivalry.

Talk about the importance of winning, and I give you my prediction for the game.

And we'll call it a day. I give you my prediction for the game.

And we'll call it a day.

Then we'll get ready for Thanksgiving.

My oldest daughter, Audrey, got in town last night.

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