Rapid Reaction: Mississippi State wins Egg Bowl on Ole Miss missed extra point; earns postsesason berth
The “chippiness” of the Egg Bowl rival was a big storyline heading into Thursday’s rivalry clash in Starkville. Everyone was supposed to be on their best behavior. In the end, a taunting penalty helped decide the game.
Ole Miss WR Elijah Moore “did the DK Metcalf” lifting his leg like a dog after catching a touchdown with only 0:04 left on the clock which cut the score to 21-20. Moore was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct, which resulted in the Rebels needing a long extra point to tie. Luke Logan’s kick went wide, and MSU held on 21-20 to win the Egg Bowl and get to six wins for the 2019 season (gaining postseason eligibility). Ole Miss falls to 4-8.
Kylin Hill led the Mississippi State ground attack (27 carries, 132 yards), but it was RB Nick Gibson who gave the Bulldogs an early 7-0 lead on a 27-yard run in the first quarter. Hill did not record a rushing touchdown, but his hard running helped set up two rushing scores for freshman QB Garrett Shrader. It was revealed in warmups that grad transfer Tommy Stevens would not be playing and Shrader would get the start.
Three turnovers proved costly for Ole Miss. A fumble on the first drive killed momentum and the third-quarter strip-sack fumble by John Rhys Plumlee helped set up MSU’s 7-play, 40-yard touchdown drive to go up 21-14, a lead the Bulldogs took into the final 15:00. Shrader scored the TD on a five-yard run.
Plumlee got the start at QB, but Rebels coach Matt Luke switched to Matt Corral late in the game when the team was in the pass-first, hurry-up offense. When Ole Miss was threatening to tie the game in the fourth quarter, Corral was picked off by Marcus Murphy. It looked like a potential game-deciding play, but there was more drama left to play out.
Corral and the Rebels got another chance with only 2:06 left after the Bulldogs failed to kill the clock or put the game out of reach. It was a heart attack series for both fanbases. MSU nearly picked Corral – twice – but the redshirt freshman kept Ole Miss in it, finding Braylon Sanders for 57 yards on fourth-and-24. Corral ended up getting the needed touchdown with only seconds left, but the Moore penalty proved costly and there was ultimately no overtime.
Ole Miss outgained Mississippi State in passing yards (245 to 108) and total yards (384 to 318), but the old adages about out-rushing your opponent and winning the turnover battle proved true for MSU (210 to 139 rushing yards; 3 to 1 turnovers).
What a stupid decision for Elijah Moore choking the game away with that unecessary penality. I’ll take the win of course but what a dumb decision to do with the game on the line like that. If I was a Ole Miss fan, I would be furious.
what a shame… one person thinking only of himself, cost everyone else on the team a chance at a win…
Not only that Ole Miss would’ve had a chance at a bowl game had they won because of their high APR scores. If their were short of bowl teams, they could’ve been one of the 5-7 teams picked. Their scores won’t matter now tho. lol
there*
Their. You were correct the first time.
Nah you’re looking at the wrong their.
“If their were short of bowl teams”
It should’ve been there*
I see. That seems more like , if they’re short of bowl teams. Enough of the grammar and spelling. Nice win.
There, like he said. They’re is a contraction. The apostrophe replaces one or more letters. So they’re = “they are.”
Nah, y’all are all wrong: Tennessee spelling is, “Thar.”
No, that’s wrong… “Thar” is only used in when pointing in a direction “Its over Thar. Thar they are. That one Thar” or handing something off “Thar you go.”.
EPIC
That was a crazy finish. I was shocked that Moore could be that selfish and clueless as to the situation. Terrible way to lose. Congrats to State.
That was an incredible ending to a hard fought game. Ole Miss literally pissed the game away though. LOL!
That’s why we call them Ole Piss
They earned that nickname tonight. Stupid and selfish is no way to go through life.
Trust me, they earn it everyday.
The Piss and the Miss
lmao great headline for an article!
That is perfect lol
Imagine the memes from this Egg Bowl moment lol
As we call you…
Miss. Stink,
Moo U.,
Leghumpers, etc…
Take your pick.
They’re all funny but I’ve always been partial to Moo U.
It was a golden moment!
What in the Sam hell.
HAIL STATE!
And go to hell Ole Piss.
Nothing like a rivalry win and bowl eligibility to make you feel better about things.
Let’s beat up on some poor group of 5 team in the Liberty Bowl for funsies.
D.K. Metcaf did the same piss thing in 2017. It took two years for karma to finally strike back, but when it did, it was glorious.
Gotta love it.
Karma is keeping Moorehead around now like we are going too lol
Elijah Moore for MVP
Most Valuable P!sser??
Lol perfect
He’s number 1!
The best part is he was on the sidelines with that belt acting like everything was cool..they would have maybe even had a chance to go for 2 and win it..
Now we have to keep Moorehead. This is terrible
Winning is never terrible.
Uneducated football fan right here but that’s par the course
Yet educated football fans will know that we had 11 defensive starters from last year graduate, meaning we had fresh players on the field all year, though, you still seem to keep this idea that this is Joe Moorheads fault for losing games. It happens. I would hate to see how you were in the 2000’s with Croom. A lot of teams have bad years, especially when you aren’t recruiting in the top 10. We never have. Get over yourself and be a true fan not a “We had a few winning years” type of fan.
And that’s why you’ll never be successful because you enjoy mediocrity
Has state ever been successful?
You obviously aren’t lol
Whether my team wins or loses has nothing to do with my personal success, HBY.
How would you know hailz? Better stop now your stupidity is showing
Go to hell ole piss. Can’t stand them. The grove is overrated and their fans are insufferable. State fans are true Southern while ole piss fans act like they’re “above” the south.
Great win Bully.
There is nothing more beautiful than broken rebel hearts.
While I agree broken rebel hearts are great. The most beautiful site on earth is broken bammer hearts.
That is also amazing.
It should be since it’s such a rarity…and we are spoiled with all those Championships…
Title should read: State wins Egg Bowl thanks to dumb Old Miss TD celebration unsportsmanlike conduct.
Amazing……. this was absolutely karma from what Metcalf did from 2017!!!! What an incredible game. Better to me than state going bowling is the memes that will generate the next few weeks as a result of this games ending!!!
That was a great game.zIm a gator fan first,Auburn fan second and an sec fan 3rd.I thought that was as good as any game iv seen all year.Both teams were really amazing,and I hated to see any team lose.Im sorry it’s not the old days where ties were still possible.If not for the sec losing a bowl team had state lost, I’d be upset Mississippi lost.They made an amazing comeback at the end.
OK, I’ll be the first Ole Miss poster.
First, Moore’s antics were absolutely classless and a total embarrassment to every Ole Miss alumnus. Oh, and they were also STUPID.
Second, the ending was perfectly predictable. We’ve seen this train wreck before. Luke would be a pretty good recruiting coordinator, but that’s about it. Head coach or position coach…uh, pass.
Third, there are many, many good Ole Miss alumni and fans. Unfortunately, many of the people who post on this site have never experienced them. My apologies.
Finally, congratulations to State. It wasn’t pretty, but unfortunately, not much in Mississippi football is these days.
Solid post. There are a lot of great OM fans and there’s a lot of bad ones just like at State. I think you need a healthy mix of both to keep this rivalry spicy. I like it best when both sides are good and fired up to win
Don’t sweat it. Most readers know you can’t generalize entire fan bases because of a few. Only people with really lazy minds say thing like “Ole Miss fans” are this, that, or the other. Ole Miss is definitely one of the best road trips you can take as a visitor. Maybe second only to Nashville. The Grove is awesome.
That was one of the tougher loses you’ll ever see. I imagine #8 must be feeling pretty bad.
All jokes, memes, and the rivalry aside I can’t help but to feel bad for the decent Ole Miss fans at least because yall fault back in the end. I almost though yall was going to pull what we did in 2013, made a huge comeback in regulation and win in OT, only for it to get pissed away (no pun intended) because one of your players thought about himself instead of the team. That was a penality that never should’ve happened if he didn’t do what he did and cost his team the game because a taunt. Matt Luke needs to get behind his players and tell them things like this can’t happen if they want to win football games. It was a great game up until the last 4 seconds.
Two things worth mentioning. First, the Reb…er…bearsharks drive was kept alive on a pass interference call that was very questionable. A defender is allowed to put his hand on a receiver as long as he doesn’t turn or push him or otherwise impede the receiver’s ability to make the catch. Clearly the MSU defender knocked the pass away and the receiver was neither turned, nor was he moved off his spot.
The second thing had no impact on the outcome but was interesting nonetheless. Moore was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct. After both benches cleared following the missed extra point, both benches were assessed with an unsportsmanlike. This would have been Moore’s second and he should have been ineligible to play for the rest of the game. Yet there he was on special teams on the kickoff. Refs missed that one, too.
Wrong only one ole miss player was flagged after the missed PAT and it wasn’t Moore.
The Pee-A-T Egg Bowl was the most entertaining Egg Bowl ever!
I may watch this one again
Ole Miss literally Pissed The Game Away…
We feel your pain Olé Miss. I thought we had the only version of Ray Finkle.
Ahh! There you are. “Tennessee is the gift that keeps on giving” ehh?? Heh heh.
Priceless.
Too funny! “Laces out, DAN!!”
Even if there was a penalty that backed them up 15 yards on the PAT, the kicker has some responsibility on making the PAT.
I guess the cowbells rattled him (pun intended).
Wow what a miserable way to end a dog piss of a season