Twitter reacts to LSU losing home opener to Mike Leach’s Mississippi State Bulldogs
By John Buhler
LSU football’s loss to Mississippi State football had Twitter in a mood.
LSU football has tasted not so sweet defeat at the hands of Mississippi State football.
This was the CBS SEC Game of the Week. It featured the defending national champions vs. a Mississippi State team with a new head coach running the Air Raid offense. Well as it turns out, having SEC talent running the Air Raid is an incredible thing to watch. Mike Leach, K.J. Costello, Kylin Hill and the rest of the Mississippi State Bulldogs handed LSU a fat L in the season opener.
As expected, Twitter went out and burnt LSU football to a crisp after this.
Today was... “better than average” - @Coach_Leach 🤣
— Mississippi State Football (@HailStateFB) September 26, 2020
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First loss for LSU football since Nov. 24, 2018, when they lost 74-72 in 7OT to Texas A&M.
— Patrick Schmidt (@PatrickASchmidt) September 26, 2020
They won 16 straight in that span, including, of course the national championship.
K.J. Costello's 623 pass yards vs. No. 6 LSU are the second most against a top-10 opponent in FBS history and the most against such an opponent in 30 years. pic.twitter.com/rGBV9IA54r
— Jason Starrett (@starrettjason) September 26, 2020
What a great damn win for Mississippi State in Baton Rouge
— Peter Burns (@PeterBurnsESPN) September 26, 2020
Leach going to be a problem, especially once he fully gets time to recruit to his system
Also, impressed with how @HailStateFB's defense played aggressively in spots making Brennan uncomfortable
Going to be a wild year
LSU is just the 4th defending champion in the last 60 seasons to lose their season opener at home and first since Notre Dame in 1978.
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) September 26, 2020
K.J. Costello had 623 passing yards, the most in a game in SEC history and the 11th-most in a game in FBS history. pic.twitter.com/tXdEaoOxoZ
From @ESPNStatsInfo: #MississippiState's K.J. Costello is the first player in FBS history to throw for 600 or more yards against a reigning national champion.
— Adam Rittenberg (@ESPNRittenberg) September 26, 2020
I've said it several times since January and I'll say it again: the worse LSU plays this year, the more it helps fully cement how incredibly cool last year's team was
— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) September 26, 2020
Mike Leach wandering into the SEC like pic.twitter.com/qFqO9ePlfE
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) September 26, 2020
— no context college football (@nocontextcfb) September 26, 2020
In Mike Leach’s first game as head coach, Mississippi State:
— Matt Zenitz (@mzenitz) September 26, 2020
— Beat the defending national champs.
— Got its first road win against a top-10 team since 2014.
— Had its QB throw for 623 yards and five touchdowns.
— Had three players with at least 120 receiving yards.
Mississippi State’s third road win against a Top 10 team in the past 50 years, joining 2014 at LSU and 1986 at Tennessee
— Matt Brown (@MattBrownCFB) September 26, 2020
Mike Leach’s 7th win against a Top 10 team but 1st on the road
LSU becomes the first national champ to lose its season opener the next year since Michigan in 1998.
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) September 26, 2020
K.J. Costello: "Without a doubt in the SEC it means more."
— Ralph D. Russo (@ralphDrussoAP) September 26, 2020
Somewhere, @GregSankey is smiling.
Ed Orgeron starts by saying he gives credit to Mike Leach. He beat #LSU.
— Brody Miller (@BrodyAMiller) September 26, 2020
"We have no excuses."
You’re darn right it was “better than average”, Coach. After spending the last two decades at remote Power 5 outposts in Lubbock, Texas and Pullman, Washington, you arrived in Starkville, Mississippi, had your graduate transfer quarterback throw for over 600 yards against a top-10 team in their building and you won by double digits. This was a statement win for the program.
Once Leach gets recruiting figured out in the southeastern footprint, we might have a sleeping giant on our hands in Starkville. There were moments when Dan Mullen really had Mississippi State humming under his watch, but he never had a win like this. While LSU may not be all that good of a team, Mississippi State looked like a well-oiled machine tearing the Tigers apart.
Maybe we should have taken Mississippi State’s upset bid of LSU more seriously because wow!
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