A Super Talk Mississippi Media Production. This is a Thunder and Lightning Extra here on SuperTalk, Mississippi, and SuperTalk.fm. I'm Brian Hayden, and I'm joined at this time by my friend Brody Miller. You know him. He covers the LSU Tigers for the Athletic. He's also the co-host of the Football and Grits podcast, which is a great podcast. If you want to keep up with the SEC. He and David Oven do a fantastic job on that one.

Brody, always great to talk to you.

This is a game.

It always has a little juice.

It's not LSU, Alabama.

It's not Mississippi State, Ole Miss.

But these two teams, you know, they have a history against each other.

But I feel like it has more juice now than it did three weeks ago because of the LSU loss. Because for state, they're looking at it in terms of, okay, maybe a little blood in the water. We can go down there and get this win and really get our season off to a great start. And then for LSU, it's like, if we don't win this one, we have Alabama and Tennessee and Arkansas and Ole Miss left to play. We're in real trouble. Is there a little more juice today than there was before the start of the season on this game? It's funny. I hadn't thought of it in that terms going in, but I think you're absolutely right that like it now has this little, on both sides, a little bit of like we are going to figure out what both these teams are in opposite ways. So that's a really good point that like this is now the is if Mississippi State wins this, people will finally kind of recognize like, man, this team's really good. And if LSU loses to your point or wins, it's like, hey, we're figuring out what to make of that Florida State game. We're figuring out like, is this team a mess? Is it a rebuild? Are they just going to be volatile? All these things. So I think that's totally a really good point that like it does have a, I don't know, maybe probably has more eyeballs, right, than I think it would have because teams are fascinated on both ends because it's like, would I be shocked at all if LSU goes out and plays a great game? No, and I wouldn't be shocked at all if the Mississippi State wins 4910. And I guess that is why it's such a juicy matchup. You tweeted out on, I think it was Monday. You said that Mississippi State's a top 15 team that nobody's watching. I'm going to make the assumption then that you've watched them and you really like this bulldog team.

Yeah, at least a good bit. I think I like them because like they just feel well-rounded in such a simplistic way to put it. Like I love a team that both has the depth and the infrastructure that

you can trust and has the upside of, you know, Will Rogers and an air raid offense. It's kind of a

win-win. I really, really

trust Zach Arnett as a defensive coordinator. And obviously, just even seeing like the way, you know,

I would love to hear your thoughts on this more. But when you look at these two games where it's like,

I know neither of those wins are like jump out at anyone wins, but those are trickier, right? Like

those playing a team in the 40 to 60 range like two weeks

in a row to start the season that's really tricky because it's just like you're not getting up for

them but the same time like they're challenging teams and to go out and convincingly win both

make jaden dolora who like was kind of a bit on a hype train a bit to then bring him back down

to earth i'm really impressed to that defense.

And I wasn't in love with Will Rogers last year. And I've really liked what I've seen from him. So yeah, I think this will tell me more if I'm like full throttle in. But man, I think this Mississippi State team is, I don't know, third or fourth in the SEC. I really do. on the other side of the coin

LSU, you know,

they didn't look good

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