The 2020 season's largest margin: Mississippi State 51, Missouri 32. A 19-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2020 — The Correction
2020 is a losing-side chapter for Mississippi State. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Will RogersQB1,976 passing yards
- K.J. CostelloQB1,283 passing yards
- Jo'quavious MarksRB312 rushing yards
- Dillon JohnsonRB225 rushing yards
- Jaden WalleyWR718 receiving yards
- Osirus MitchellWR505 receiving yards
- Austin WilliamsWR372 receiving yards
- Erroll ThompsonLB95 tackles
- Aaron BruleLB74 tackles
- Martin EmersonCB72 tackles
- Tyrus WheatLB5 sacks
- Marquiss SpencerDE3 sacks
- Nathan PickeringDT2 sacks
Season leaders, 2020.
The season's deepest loss: Mississippi State 0, Alabama 41. A 41-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Mississippi State beat Tulsa 28-26 in the postseason.
"Hail State"
2020 sits in Mississippi State's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.