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T&L Opponent Preview: PineBeltSports.com's Dima Mixon Previews Mississippi State-Southern Mississippi

Thunder & Lightning

SuperTalk Mississippi Media

Sports, News, Sports News

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Two old rivals, two teams looking for a massive leap forward from a season ago, two programs in need of some positive momentum will meet on Saturday as Mississippi State and Southern Mississippi clash in Hattiesburg. Brian Hadad welcomes Dima Mixon of PineBeltSports.com to the podcast for a season opening preview. Brian Hadad of SportsTalk Mississippi and Robbie Faulk of On3 give you the best insight into Mississippi State athletics. We cover the Bulldogs like no one else. This show is a production of SuperTalk Mississippi Media. Learn more at SuperTalk.FM

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.6

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0:52.7

Well, against all odds, I set the opponent previews up perfectly to end at Southern Mississippi.

0:58.2

When State is playing Southern Mississippi, don't ask me how I did it, but we got here. Dima Mixen joins us now.

1:01.2

Covers the Golden Eagles for Pine Belt Sports, where he's the sports editor there.

1:06.1

He's also a member of the Super Talk family as a co-host of the Eagle Hour in Dima.

1:17.1

It's so tough for you and I both to preview this game because what Southern Mississippi was a year ago, what Mississippi State was a year ago, a lot of those players are gone and they've been replaced by new players.

1:21.9

How good a field do you have of what this Southern Mississippi team is going to be?

1:25.5

I have no idea. I'm going to be fully honest. I don't know.

1:29.5

You know, Charles Huff runs the practices and pretty much the whole administration just like Nick Saven does. So we've had very little

1:35.3

access to see anything as far as how they're going to line up, what they're going to run. So a lot

1:41.3

of it is unknown. The only thing we do knows is just what some of the players have proven before other teams.

1:48.6

But if you're talking about last year's team to this year's team, it's over 85 new players.

1:53.4

There's only about four or five players from last year's team.

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