Welcome in to my dogs are barking on MPW Digital presented by Heath Briles Barbecue.

My name is Landon and welcome to this pre-Halline episode of the podcast of the Thursday matchups and picks show.

And man, things might get a little scary around here.

Like, you know, looking at the schedule, if you're a head coach in the SEC, things are looking a little scary.

If you're a head coach anywhere, I think things are looking a little frightening. And then I think you kind of look at the fine print of your contract and go, actually, you know what, even if this doesn't work out, I'm going to be set for life. So, man, very excited for you to be here with us today. Mississippi State takes on Arkansas on the road on Saturday.

And we're going to break down that game.

And we talked Monday about kind of what that game would mean for Mississippi State.

But then we're also going to talk about the rest of the big games in the SEC.

And there's several of them.

This is going to be a very big week.

It's kind of an odd deal that we're looking in real time at Vanderbilt and saying,

man, there's a real chance they beat the University of Texas.

I mean, really say that out loud 10 years ago.

You would not have believed yourself.

But it's a different world, man, a very different world. So we got a lot of good stuff to get to today on the episode. We'll talk about Arkansas, talk about some of the things you're doing really well. And then we'll also talk about just kind of Mississippi State's opportunity that they have right here against Arkansas. I mean, you know, all of a sudden, one more win in Mississippi State, if they were to get

the win against Arkansas, they're one and went away from a bowl game.

And coming into the season, knowing you lost Mario Craver, you lost Kevin Coleman, Stone Blanton,

it just seemed like there was some, I understand one of those guys is not like the

other but you at least looked and said okay well he was your he was your guy on defense that

that really played a lot of snaps this defense was was pretty bad last season you know what

are we going to look at and and to say the state's going to a bowl game is is potentially

I mean a really big step in the right

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