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T&L Week 2 Opponent Preview: SOTD's Brad Denny Previews Mississippi State-Arizona State

Thunder & Lightning

SuperTalk Mississippi Media

Sports, News, Sports News

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Mississippi State would like nothing more that to return the favor to Arizona State by taking a win over the Sun Devils this Saturday. What is the difference between this year's Sun Devil squad and last year's beyond the departure of Cam Skattebo? Brian Hadad welcomes Brad Denny of the Speak of the Devils Podcast back for a preview of Saturday's night showdown. 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

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One of the fun things is when you're the week two opponent of Mississippi State,

1:11.8

you get to be on the show twice in a very short time span with the way we do things here on Thunder and Lightning. Brad Denny joins us again. Speak of the Devils ASU football podcast where you might hear a familiar voice if you tune in a little later this week. Also with 3 TV and CBS 5 and Brad, what does get right to it? Your thoughts after week one there in Tempe, a game that, you know, when you just look at the score, you think, wow, that's not the most impressive margin of victory over

1:16.0

an FCS team. What do I take away from those of us who didn't watch that game in its entirety?

1:20.9

I'm still not sure because there was so much that was very uncharacteristic about the Sun Devils

1:26.4

performance from what we've seen in the prior two years under Kenny Dillingham.

1:30.2

First and foremost, the penalties by far program high under Dillingham, not just the amount of penalties, but the timing of the penalties.

1:41.3

There was a three-play span where one negated a 75-yard touchdown run

1:45.5

by Malik Brown, Relique Brown, excuse me, and then Malik McLean had a 64-yard catch negated

1:51.3

on the very next play. And then as the fans were given the ref, you know, the business a little bit,

1:55.8

Sam Levitt got a delay of game penalty because he was trying to calm them down, because they

1:58.8

were at that point backed up pretty far. Overall, though, like there were some big play, Sam Levitt through two touchdowns. Jordan Tyson, the All-American, or preseason, an All-American wide receiver, had a huge game, 12 catches. That combination is picking up right where it left off. Sam Levitt also had two Russian touchdowns. The ground game was pretty good, probably underutilized.

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The defense was overall pretty good, especially on third down, holding into two,

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