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                       ORANGE BOWL SUN LIFE STADIUM - MIAMI GARDENS, FL


***** MISSISSIPPI ST    -7     vs     GEORGIA TECH

The Mississippi St Bulldogs were finally a part of the SEC's elite, under Dan Mullen as coach.  It has been a long time since they were a top team in the SEC, much less, the whole country.  This has not been something that is easy to do with this football program.  As far as good recruits go, you would probably go anywhere else in the SEC, except for Vanderbilt or Kentucky.  So I think Mullen has done a great job, and he put together a really good Bulldogs team this season.  They weren't good enough to knock off the top dog Alabama or rival, Ole Miss, but they have a great offense and a heck of a front seven on defense.  As for Georgia Tech, they play in a conference that can't really compare to the SEC and they don't play defense.  The fact that they beat Georgia means nothing, because that is an arch rivalry game, and they beat Georgia in '08, and there was an overreaction, because Georgia had beat LSU bad that year.  So, Tech was a 3.5 point favorite against LSU in the Peach Bowl that year and bettors were all over the Yellow Jackets.  LSU destroyed them 38-3.  Not that that year has really anything to do with this game, it's just that beating Georgia this year is not that impressive, neither were the Georgia Bulldogs.  I  think this Mississippi St  Bulldogs team is just much better than what the Yellow Jackets have.

PREDICTED SCORE :  BULLDOGS  45    YELLOW JACKETS  24