On a beautiful fall evening in Starkville, Mississippi, it was the Mississippi State Bulldogs welcoming Kentucky to Davis Wade Stadium for a homecoming rumble. Kentucky would score first on the Bulldogs, and the rest was history as Mississippi State dropped another game this season.

Mississippi State had Davis Wade Stadium rocking Saturday night as they welcomed the Wildcats. With everyone, including the student sections, surrounded by the noise of the cowbells, the Bulldogs were unable to give the Mississippi State fans a product they could be proud of on Saturday night. Kentucky came into Davis Wade Stadium and pushed the Bulldogs around, closing the door on a postseason trip for the 2023 Mississippi State Football team.

Here’s the harsh reality. Kentucky was the better team. Coach Arnett and his staff have just about run out of excuses for how bad this Mississippi State Football team is. With just three weeks in the season, Mississippi State has to win two out of three games to reach postseason play. Two of those Southeastern Conference games are against teams that, on paper, are better than Mississippi State in every category on the field. Mississippi State has to beat Texas A&M on the road or Ole Miss in the Egg Bowl at home on Thanksgiving night. Given that Mississippi State will have to beat Southern Miss at home on the 18th to have that conversation, the ceiling for this team is 5-7 this season unless something drastic changes between now and next Saturday against the Aggies.

As far as the Kentucky game goes, Mississippi State was embarrassed on the offensive side of the ball. Mike Wright finished the day with 78 yards through the air, going 11-21. Wright also threw an interception that got returned for a touchdown, taking the air out of Davis Wade Stadium. What seems like clockwork at this point in the season, the offense for Mississippi State left the Bulldog faithful with a sour taste of defeat on Saturday.

With the loss to Kentucky on Saturday night, the Bulldogs fell to 4-5 on the season and have become the first Mississippi State Football team to lose to Kentucky at Davis Wade Stadium since 2008, when Sylvester Croom was the Head Coach at Mississippi State. All around, tonight was another disappointing chapter in the 2023 season for the Mississippi State Bulldogs.

Mississippi State will head to Texas A&M on Saturday night to play the Aggies in a must-win situation.