Welcome in to My Dogs Are Barkin on MPW Digital, presented by Heathrow's barbecue.

And man, it is Thursday.

It's the matchups and picks show.

We're sorry we missed you guys on Monday.

Crazy stuff happening this week, but we'll be back to regular schedule of Monday, Thursday, post-game Saturday next week.

But, man, we've got an exciting episode because we have several very good games,

including a top 25 matchup in the SEC. I think there's also some games that can kind of put

the final nail in people's coffin, so to speak. And so very excited about that. excited to have

Mr. Austin back with us. Always, always good to have him. And also, if you missed it, Austin's wearing the hat right now. Awesome, show him the hat a little bit, man. Hovi is sponsoring a giveaway for us every week for the rest of the season. All you have to do is go to our Twitter, just at My Dog's Pod. And I posted it today. So you have time right now by the time this comes out. Go ahead and get your prediction in. Who wins? What the score is. Whoever is correct. I'll go back and look at the timestamp who had the right answer first. Hovi is going to ship them, S-H-I-P, a hat of the MSU performance. I show them the little performance hat on the side, man. You got the rope going. But yeah, very good quality hat, very breathable. Anyway, we'll send that to you for free just for getting the right answer. So, and that's going to be a weekly occurrence. So we thank Hovey for that. Austin, how you feeling, man? Which finally, finally back to game time.

I feel like once we get to this point in the week, it's like everything's kind of downhill. We made it through the week and now football is almost here. Yeah, yeah, no doubt. It's about to be that time, man. Another great Saturday. Mississippi State has a great exciting home game. And yeah, dude, you're right. I mean, it's week four. We're really getting into the swing of things.

Mississippi stay undefeated.

I don't know how many more times we can say that so we got to enjoy

it while we have it and uh man i'm looking forward to the game saturday yeah mississippi state taking on

northern illinois if you didn't get a chance to go back and listen i got the the privilege to

interview northern illinois head coach thomas hammock about a month ago month and a half ago got the privilege to interview Northern Illinois's head coach

Thomas Hammock about a month ago, month and a half ago on this show. And he talked about

Mississippi State, talked about the cowbells. And honestly, dude, like, I really like him. I mean,

he just comes up with banger after banger during the week. I mean, he's asked about the transfer

portal. And look, like, Mississippi State took three of his players from last year. Other people gutted him in the portal. And like, he gets asked about a lot. And he's like, look, it's almost like a point of privilege. Like, we develop these guys and they want our guys because we develop them well. You know, can they develop their own kind of people? You know, and he started to say, if we had more resources here and got to keep those people, how much better would we be? And he stopped himself shy barely of saying that. But I really like him as a guy, as a coach, he's so easy to root for. But state fans will not be rooting for him Saturday. But overall, like, you go back to listen to it. He just, any interview he does, I like to listen to if I can, just because of the kind of person he is. You can see why people like to play for him. But state does play Northern Illinois this week. And so we'll get into that game, get into some of the notes that there's several interesting things about this northern

illinois team remember they beat nether dame last year um and 22 years ago this week northern

illinois beat alabama in tuscaloosa for their lone win against an c c program

defensive line tackle Travis more had two tackles that day. So just saying it's in their

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