[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="512"] Some of this on Saturday please (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)[/caption] At SEC media days this summer Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen stated the Bulldog's season expectation was "to find a way to get to Atlanta." With games on the schedule against LSU, Texas A&M, Auburn, and Alabama a lot of people laughed. Nobody is laughing now. For the second time in three years Mississippi State has started the season with a record of 6-0. In 2012 their hot start was followed by the dawgs losing 5 of 6 to end the season 8-5. This year they will surely be looking to avoid a similar fate but in order to see where they may end up let's see where they've been. This is the Mississippi State season in review: Southern Miss, Current Record (3-4) The Bulldogs opened the season with a beatdown of the in-state Golden Eagles.  Dak Prescott went 18/26 and threw four touchdowns as State won 49-0. Business as usual for a SEC school playing an C-USA school. UAB, Current Record (4-3) Mississippi State took care of business against UAB but the game gave plenty of reason to doubt the Bulldogs as a contender. Prescott once again threw four touchdowns en route to a 47-34 win. The biggest issue was the 435 passing yards given up to the Blazers which included big plays of 88, 81, and 75 yards. After the game Coach Mullen said the holes in the pass defense was something State would be getting fixed. If the Cats are going to find a way to pull the upset they will need to exploit the pass defense once again. @ South Alabama, Current Record (4-2) State crushed South Alabama on the road 35-3. Dak ran, threw, and caught a touchdown but besides that it was a run-of-the-mill game. The Bulldogs were on to their real test. @ LSU, Current Record (6-2) The Bulldogs did what we couldn't. They went into Tiger Stadium and won a game at night. State hadn't won in Baton Rouge since 1991 but Dak Prescott helped change that by racking up 268 yards and two TDs. Miss St. executed our gameplan to perfection as caught the Tigers offguard early with a 17-3 lead and then rode that to a 34-29 win. The dawgs got it done on the ground with Josh Robinson bruising his way to 197 yards. Texas A&M, Current Record (5-3) The Bulldogs then got to host sixth ranked TAMU after taming the Tigers on the road. The Aggies threw the ball a whopping 62 times which resulted in 3 game changing interceptions. Prescott was good once again as he went 20/26 for 268 yards , he added  77 more running on the ground and totaled 5 touchdowns. Running back Josh Robinson totaled 107 more and 2 TDs as State rolled to a 48-31 win. Texas A&M proved that you're not going to beat this team if you're constantly turning the ball over. Auburn, Current Record (5-1) It was the biggest test of the season for the Bulldogs and one they passed with flying colors when they hosted the defending runners up for college gameday. Auburn hadn't lost an SEC game in over a year but that didn't stop the State defense from making Nick Marshall look average in a 38-23 win. Prescott picked up 121 yards on the ground and threw for for 246 more. After three straight top-10 wins the Bulldogs made the trek from unranked to first place the fastest in the history of the AP poll

What have we learned?

Lesson 1) It's going to take a lot of points to beat the Bulldogs. State is 9th in the nation in points per game and they've done it against teams that don't give up much in LSU and Auburn. Lesson 2) They're a Dual Threat Team. Last year we held Dak to just 33 yards on the ground. It's going to take a total effort to do that again this season. Josh Robinson has emerged as a true threat in his breakout junior season and will likely cross the 1000 yard mark this season. State also goes about 7 deep at receiver as , like Kentucky, they have several guys capable of making a play. If Kentucky can find some way to make them a bit more dimensional then they will have a much better chance at the W. Easier said that done. What do you think of Mississippi State's season so far?