The White House lists Mississippi among the Big Ten states excited to have football back
A verbal slip-up from White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany provided College Football Twitter some amusement on Wednesday.
McEnany was relaying President Donald Trump’s approval of the Big Ten’s plan for a fall season when she started listing off the states in the conference footprint, mistakenly including Mississippi (in place of Michigan).
McEnany may have said Mississippi out of excitement for the beginning of the Mike Leach era in Starkville. She is the daughter of former Mississippi State defensive lineman Mike McEnany and grew up a Bulldogs fan despite her mom’s Florida Gators fandom.
Big Ten football is BACK! 🏈 pic.twitter.com/bEYemfKqxm
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 16, 2020
Congrats to noted Big 10 state Mississippi for getting football back according to the White House. We are leaders and legends for life in the Magnolia State. https://t.co/lsUo9EN4l6
— Nick Suss (@nicksuss) September 16, 2020
Ole Miss and/or Mississippi State have been relegated to the Big Ten https://t.co/fRAkY5Nigx
— Tom Green (@Tomas_Verde) September 16, 2020
Everywhere is Mississippi! https://t.co/EduCAUhlL3
— Joseph Goodman (@JoeGoodmanJr) September 16, 2020
Congrats to all the Mississippi schools in the Big Ten! https://t.co/qgrbDARVON
— Austin Myers (@MathmanMyers) September 16, 2020
Mississippi???
What?! https://t.co/qadqTB15gI
— Shaquira Speaks 😷 (@speakin_ontv) September 16, 2020
Mississippi in the Big Ten is the most 2020 thing ever https://t.co/m6cHRZxwEr
— Spencer Aber (@SpencerAber) September 16, 2020
So is that Mississippi or Mississippi State that has joined the big 10? 🤦🏼♂️ https://t.co/LJKcTrzrWn
— reeddyches (@reeddyches) September 16, 2020
…Ole Miss & Miss State to the B1G in exchange for Ohio State & Michigan? That would spice up the SEC West.
Make that Ohio St. and Penn St. and we might have a deal.
No way. The SEC is already the strongest conference. We don’t need to water down the other conferences more than they already are.
Georgia will now move to the west to balance things out…
Wait, so now the land mass between AL and LA is Michigan? This is confusing.
My guess is that the states were abbreviated and she took the MI as Mississippi instead of Michigan. She obviously isn’t a college football fan.
Well, dang it. There goes any chance the Hogs had of getting to three wins.
I bet most Big Ten fans would take us and Ole Miss in exchange for Maryland and Rutgers
Vanderbilt says make that happen cause that would guarantee two SEC wins for them every year
We’d 100% take that deal and throw in Indiana at no charge