Welcome to the Bonyard with Steve Robertson. As always, I am your good friend and host, Steve Robertson. Hope things are well with you wherever you are today. I want to thank you guys for being here. It's Thanksgiving week. It's rivalry week, but before we get to the Egg Bowl, we get a chance to break bread with many of the people that we love. And I've had some people reach out to me that are dear friend to say, you know what, my family's not getting together this year, and we've had some illness in the family, and we just feel like it's best not to congregate. And I certainly respect those decisions. But I'll have all of my children home, including my brand-new grandbaby, so we're looking forward to celebrating her first Thanksgiving with her.

So that's the deal with us, and I'm excited, to say the least, to have a little downtime.

It's a crazy time of year for all of us.

You know, 2020 was standing.

It's a crazy time of year.

We're getting towards into football season.

There's a lot of discussions about what Mississippi State needs to do to get to a bowl game, and some people would kind of scoff at the idea. I'm told it's not so far-fetched. It's state ends up in a ball game and extends the streak. Bowl games need bowl teams. So we may get an opportunity to go play.

And we need to win a ballgames.

We need to win a ballgame or two at the very least.

But don't think right now that say, well, you know, we shouldn't make any postseason plans.

It's not over.

So I encourage you to kind of hold the rope here because there may be some more football to be played after the SEC championship game for other SEC teams. A lot of bowls are still figuring this thing out.

I mean, goodness, you've got the New Mexico ball moving their ball game to a different state

to ensure that it's played. These people that run these bowl games, they work all year long

for one day. So these bowl games want to be played. They need teams to play them. And so it's not

out of the question that Mississippi State ends up in a bowl game. Lots and lots and lots of things

between now and then. So let's get into some things and let's begin to

kind of break down what to expect this weekend, what you should look for from the old Miss

rebels. I will share with you before we get to involve that I have not been made aware of any

losses or additions to the Mississippi State roster.

We have dug around and asked some questions, and I'm told that there's a good chance we get a couple of guys back, no names given.

But by and large, it's going to be a short-handed roster again, just as we had against

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