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What we learned: The halftime edition

Posted 8/31/2008 on The Blog

RUSTON, La. — It's halftime, and Mississippi State leads Louisiana Tech 14-10 at Joe Aillet Stadium on a muggy night in north Louisiana.   Here's some bullet points of what we learned: • Sylvester Croom is committed to playing two quarterbacks. Wesley Carroll was in and threw a touchdown with two interceptions; Tyson Lee led the team down the field on a drive that ended ...

Ice cream: Mississippi State > Louisiana Tech

Posted 8/30/2008 on The Blog

I have sampled the local ice cream, and I can report this: Mississippi State's is better.   Not that the ice cream I just ate from the Louisiana Tech dairy was bad. It was pretty good, actually. Gave me a brain freeze because I ate it so quickly.   But let's be honest: There's little better than a good helping of Mississippi State ice cream. Muscadine ripple, my friend.    ...

La. Tech: Pregame notes

Posted 8/30/2008 on Inside Mississippi State Sports with Brad Locke

I’ll update this once or twice before kickoff. • OL Derek Sherrod , as suspected, did not travel with the team. Taking his seat on the plane was junior OL Phillip Freeman . • There will be a familiar face on the Tech sideline: offensive line coach Art Kehoe . He held the same role at Ole Miss from 2006-07. Wow, from Miami and all those national championships to Louisiana Tech. ...

Mississippi State Bulldogs-Louisiana Tech Bulldogs Preview

Posted 8/30/2008 on Sports Handicapping

The Mississippi State Bulldogs and the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs will both be looking to go 1-0 on the season when they meet at Joe Aillet Stadium on Saturday. NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Bulldogs listed as 7½-point favorites versus the Bulldogs, while the game's total is sitting at 45. Team records: Mississippi State: 8-5 SU, 6-6 ATS Louisiana Tech: 5-7 SU, 6-5 ATS  ...

Tech Tidbits

Posted 8/28/2008 on Inside Mississippi State Sports with Brad Locke

First off, OL Derek Sherrod did not practice again today. Not sure he’ll even play Saturday. Maybe they won’t need him. Anyway, I mentioned the other day that Louisiana Tech historically gives SEC teams a tough time. The Bulldogs are 3-24-1 against SEC foes since joining Division I in 1989. In their first matchup against an SEC school, they tied South Carolina (that was ...

Bulldogs: VIP Guests

Posted 8/28/2008 on Inside Mississippi State Sports with Brad Locke

I didn’t realize this until I heard Louisiana Tech QB Taylor Bennett mention it during Monday’s press conference: Mississippi State will be the first SEC school to pay a visit to Tech’s Joe Aillet Stadium. Not only that, the Bulldogs are the first BCS school to come a-calling. Tech is not the kind of school that can easily draw big teams to its place. For starters, the ...

Quarterback Shuffle

Posted 8/28/2008 on Inside Mississippi State Sports with Brad Locke

Here’s today’s story on Louisiana Tech QB Taylor Bennett . Speaking of quarterbacks, we could see four of them on the field Saturday. Tech coach Derek Dooley said he has “two No. 1s,” and Sylvester Croom plans to work Tyson Lee into the mix. Neither coach has a specific plan, like alternating series. We heard from Croom earlier in the week on this. Dooley said ...

Tuesday Press Conference

Posted 8/26/2008 on Inside Mississippi State Sports with Brad Locke

Hello, Bulldog fans. Let me first say how excited I am to be covering this beat. This is Day 1, with many more to come. I will give a formal introduction later. For now, some tidbits from today’s press conference. • Even though he started at Georgia Tech last year, there is some mystery surrounding Louisiana Tech QB Taylor Bennett . The senior transferred in this year and was ...

La Tech upsets Mississippi State

Published 8/31/2008 on The Seattle Times: Sports

Brad Oestriecher made a career-best three field goals and Louisiana Tech took advantage of three Mississippi State turnovers in the third quarter in a 22-14 upset on Saturday.

Predicting the Season, Part Three

Published 8/27/2008 on Bleacher Report - College Football

Sun Belt   Arkansas State   @ Texas A&M Texas Southern-- Southern Miss Middle Tennessee-- @ Memphis Louisiana-Monroe @ Louisiana-Lafayette @ Alabama @ Florida International-- Florida Atlantic @ North ...

LSU adds La Tech to schedule, moves Tulane to B.R.

Published 8/27/2008 on SportingNews.com College Football News and Exclusive Analysis

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- LSU has added Louisiana Tech to its 2009 home schedule. It also moved the T...