Welcome in to My Dogger Barkin on MPW Digital, presented by Heath Riles Barbecue, and welcome to the postgame show with what went right, what went wrong, and what was missing against Northern Illinois.

Mississippi State gets the 38 to 10 victory over Northern Illinois, and a game where in the second half, Mississippi State's, I think the state had a total of 452 yards in this game.

300 of it came in a second half.

Really, really a sloppy first half for Mississippi State.

And we'll discuss some of that.

I think in the end, kind of the talent disparity between the Mac and the SEC showed up,

honestly, as it should, with any SEC team versus a Mac team, unless you're Toledo from last season, then Mississippi State prove that that is not true.

But in this game, honestly, Northern Illinois had a very good game plan in the beginning to try to keep the ball away from Mississippi State.

And we're successful there in the first half. And then really towards the end of the first half and into the second half, State just completely controlled the time of possession ended up having it for almost 32 minutes of the game. And one thing we'll talk about throughout this week is that Mississippi State, in order to beat a team like Tennessee, they're going to have to control the time of possession. So we'll talk about all that. Also, man, thank you for those who

participated in the first ever hovey hat giveaway. We're doing that every week. So every

post on Thursday, we'll send out the tweet on Thursday. Just follow at My Dog's Pod on Twitter.

And from there, we will kind of have a place you can drop your prediction for who wins the game. What's the score? If you get it right, Hovi will send you. They'll mail you one of their really neat Mississippi State performance hats. So excited about that. Thankful to Hovi. Thankful for those who tried it who were there for the first contest.

And yeah, we will get into it. I think this is a game that, you know, State wins by 28 points.

But to be honest, if some of those connections were there in the first half, this one might be a lot greater in, in disparity between the scores.

So we'll talk about all that. I think NIA you again played as about as good as they could have state had a lot of things to work on in

particular one thing that we'll talk about when it comes to what went wrong but we'll get to

that in just a little bit but first we'll let you know that this episode and every episode of

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