Mississippi State gets Spurrier’s vote heading into Saturday showdown
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By Kyle Veazey
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Sitting on the back of a golf cart in the Monday afternoon post-practice twilight, Mississippi State Sylvester Croom smiled and laughed.
One vote in the USA Today/ESPN coaches’ poll for his Mississippi State football team? Sounds like something ol’ Steve Spurrier would do, he said, laughing.
Later Monday, Spurrier told reporters in Columbia, S.C., that he was, indeed, the mystery voter who put the 3-1 Bulldogs at No. 25 on his poll.
“They deserve to be in probably as much as anybody,” Spurrier said, according to the Greenville News. “They’ve got a good defense, run the ball well. The way we’ve been trying to stop the run, we could be in trouble if they start rolling up and down the field.”
Informed about that at his press conference earlier this afternoon, Croom smiled, asked “Oh really”, then burst into laughter.
“I’ll have a little conversation with him in the pregame on Saturday,” Croom said, smiling.
Mississippi State (3-1, 1-1 SEC) faces No. 16 South Carolina (3-1, 1-1 SEC) at 11:30 a.m. Saturday inside Columbia’s Williams-Brice Stadium.
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