10 years since our first AP #1 ranking

[Dks2]

It's been 10 years to the week when Mississippi State was ranked #1 in the AP and the Coaches poll for the first time in our history

What a rise from starting the season unranked to beating Top-10 (at the time) LSU, A&M and Auburn in back to back to back weeks and getting ranked #1 on Oct 12th 2014. It was such an exhilarating time for all State fans.

Thank you Mullen and staff, Dak and the whole team for making us proud. Sure, the season fizzled after the loss at Alabama, but we will always have those few weeks where we ruled college football.

Mississippi State is AP No. 1 for first time

Mississippi State was the focus of last week’s Poll Position, making the most significant move in The Associated Press Top 25. Conventional wisdom may say that there was no way it could top the historical significance of last week’s move from No. 12 to No. 3, which marked the highest ranking in...

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1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi

TRENT SANSBURY held out his right hand on Sunday morning and showed off the damage. "There's one," the son of two Mississippi State graduates said, pointing

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[dawgstudent]

It's by far my favorite time as a State fan. Baseball is my least favorite of the big 3 and even though I was over the moon excited when we won the CWS - nothing topped those 5 weeks of seeing #1 by Mississippi State football.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

I don't know if we will ever see that kind of success again. So many things have to go right when you're in a position like our program's.

I have great memories of that time that will never be replaced.

 

[mcdawg22]

 

[BulldogBlitz]

I ended up with the unfortunate version of that cover.

 

[Maroon13]

I don't know if we will ever be ranked #1. However we have been in that situation a few years before 2014.

1981, we were ranked 7 and Bama 8. When we went to Tuscaloosa and lost. If we win that game......

1999 we were undefeated going to Tuscaloosa and ranked #8.

2012 we were undefeated and ranked 11.

State get back into the top 10 again one day with an opportunity to rise. Will State continue to win, with all the chips on the table, is another question.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

 

[OG Goat Holder]

I don't know if we will ever be ranked #1. However we have been in that situation a few years before 2014.

1981, we were ranked 7 and Bama 8. When we went to Tuscaloosa and lost. If we win that game......

1999 we were undefeated going to Tuscaloosa and ranked #8.

2012 we were undefeated and ranked 11.

State get back into the top 10 again one day with an opportunity to rise. Will State continue to win, with all the chips on the table, is another question.

Basically all of our dreams have died in Tuscaloosa. That's one of the few good things to come out of the new era of college sports, we don't have to play them all the time anymore. Saban or no Saban.

 

[Maroon13]

Basically all of our dreams have died in Tuscaloosa. That's one of the few good things to come out of the new era of college sports, we don't have to play them all the time anymore. Saban or no Saban.

Some dreams have died in Starkville at their hands. I remember in 1994, State put a guide to the SEC Championship broucher in the game day program.

It was a heavy weight battle but Bama prevailed.

 

[Prince of Darkness]

1992 & 1994 Both teams were 7-2 coming into the Bama game '92 team lost to Bama, Mississippi, & to UNC in the Peach Bowl to finish 7-5. '94 team lost to Bama, beat Mississippi, then lost to NCST in the Peach Bowl to finish 8-4. Two promising years that fizzled in the end