2024_Mississippi_State_Bulldogs_football_team

2024 Mississippi State Bulldogs football
2024 Mississippi State Bulldogs football
Conference	Southeastern Conference
Record	0–0 (0–0 SEC)
Head coach	Jeff Lebby (1st season);
Defensive coordinator	Coleman Hutzler (1st season)
Home stadium	Davis Wade Stadium
	Seasons ← 2023 2025 →

2024 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team

American college football season

The 2024 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team will represent Mississippi State University in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bulldogs will be led by first-year head coach Jeff Lebby.^[1]^[2]^[3] The team will play its home games at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Mississippi.

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Schedule

Mississippi State and the SEC announced the 2024 football schedule on December 13, 2023.^[3]^[4] The 2024 Bulldogs' schedule consists of 7 home games and 5 away games for the regular season. Mississippi State will host four SEC conference opponents Arkansas, Florida, Missouri and Texas A&M at home and will travel to four SEC opponents, Georgia, Ole Miss (Egg Bowl), Tennessee and Texas to close out the SEC regular season on the road. The Bulldog's will have bye weeks that comes in week 6 and 12 (October 5 and November 16, respectively).

Texas is one of two new members of the SEC that will join in July 2024,^[5] the Bulldogs will play the Longhorns for the first since the 1998 season at the 1999 Cotton Bowl Classic.^[3] Mississippi State will travel to Austin, Texas for the first time since the 1992 season, which the Bulldogs won 28–10.^[6]

With the two new teams to the SEC (Oklahoma and Texas) and the conference dropping divisions in a new scheduling format,^[7] Mississippi State this season will not play notable SEC rivals for the first time in years; Alabama (1947), Auburn (1954), Kentucky (1989) and LSU (1943).^[8]

The 2024 season's out of conference opponents represent the Big 12, MAC and the United Athletic (UAC) conferences, along with an FBS independent team. The Bulldogs will host three of their four non–conference games which are against Eastern Kentucky from the UAC, Toledo from the MAC, and UMass, whom is an FBS independent program. The Bulldogs will travel to Arizona State for the first time in program history on September 7, 2024.^[9] The three other nonconference teams that Mississippi State will face in 2024, are also first ever meetings in program history.^[2]

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Date	Opponent	Site
August 31	Eastern Kentucky*	Davis Wade Stadium Starkville, MS
September 7	at Arizona State*	Mountain America Stadium Tempe, AZ
September 14	Toledo*	Davis Wade Stadium Starkville, MS
September 21	Florida	Davis Wade Stadium Starkville, MS
September 28	at Texas	Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium Austin, TX
October 12	at Georgia	Sanford Stadium Athens, GA
October 19	Texas A&M	Davis Wade Stadium Starkville, MS
October 26	Arkansas	Davis Wade Stadium Starkville, MS
November 2	UMass*	Davis Wade Stadium Starkville, MS
November 9	at Tennessee	Neyland Stadium Knoxville, TN
November 23	Missouri	Davis Wade Stadium Starkville, MS
November 30	at Ole Miss	Vaught–Hemingway Stadium Oxford, MS (Egg Bowl)
*Non-conference game Homecoming

Statistics	Eastern Kentucky	Mississippi State
First downs
Plays–yards
Rushes–yards
Passing yards
Passing: comp–att–int
Time of possession

Team	Category	Player	Statistics
Eastern Kentucky	Passing
	Rushing
	Receiving
Mississippi State	Passing
	Rushing
	Receiving

Statistics	Mississippi State	Arizona State
First downs
Plays–yards
Rushes–yards
Passing yards
Passing: comp–att–int
Time of possession

Team	Category	Player	Statistics
Mississippi State	Passing
	Rushing
	Receiving
Arizona State	Passing
	Rushing
	Receiving

2024_Mississippi_State_Bulldogs_football_team

2024 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team

Schedule

Game summaries

vs Eastern Kentucky

at Arizona State

vs Toledo

vs Florida

at Texas

at Georgia

vs Texas A&M

vs Arkansas

vs UMass

at Tennessee

vs Missouri

at Ole Miss

References

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Team	W		L	W		L
Alabama	0	–	0	0	–	0
Arkansas	0	–	0	0	–	0
Auburn	0	–	0	0	–	0
Florida	0	–	0	0	–	0
Georgia	0	–	0	0	–	0
Kentucky	0	–	0	0	–	0
LSU	0	–	0	0	–	0
Mississippi State	0	–	0	0	–	0
Missouri	0	–	0	0	–	0
Oklahoma	0	–	0	0	–	0
Ole Miss	0	–	0	0	–	0
South Carolina	0	–	0	0	–	0
Tennessee	0	–	0	0	–	0
Texas	0	–	0	0	–	0
Texas A&M	0	–	0	0	–	0
Vanderbilt	0	–	0	0	–	0
Championship: December 7, 2024
As of April 26, 2024 Rankings from AP Poll

Team	Category	Player	Statistics
Toledo	Passing
	Rushing
	Receiving
Mississippi State	Passing
	Rushing
	Receiving

Team	Category	Player	Statistics
UMass	Passing
	Rushing
	Receiving
Mississippi State	Passing
	Rushing
	Receiving