Postgame Notes: No. 24 Mississippi State at No. 6 Alabama
October 22, 2022 | Football
GENERAL
- Mississippi State won the coin toss and elected to receive the opening kickoff.
- MSU's game captain was WR Austin Williams.
- Tonight's attendance was 100,077.
OFFENSE
- Mississippi State is now 22-for-24 in the red zone this season (91.6 percent), with 21 touchdowns.
- The Bulldogs are averaging (5.38 entering) points per red zone drive.
- Completed passes to nine different receivers.
DEFENSE
- Recorded a season-best 9.0 tackles for loss for a loss of 32 yards.
- Held Alabama to a season-low 290 yards of total offense.
- No other team has held the Crimson Tide below the 300-yard mark this season.
- Allowed just 29 rushing yards on 27 carries (1.1 yards per carry).
- MSU has held 13 opponents to fewer than 100 rushing yards under defensive coordinator Zach Arnett.
- Nine of those have been against SEC teams and seven have come on the road.
- That total is the Bulldogs' third-lowest under Arnett.
- 8 yards at Georgia (Nov. 11, 2020).
- 9 yards at Vanderbilt (Oct. 23, 2021).
- MSU has held 13 opponents to fewer than 100 rushing yards under defensive coordinator Zach Arnett.
INDIVIDUAL NOTES
WR Lideatrick Griffin
- Returned two kickoffs 42 yards.
- Averaging (32.5 yards per return in his career entering), which is 5.8 yards better than the school record (minimum 30 attempts).
- Current record: 26.7, Leon Berry (2009-10).
- Averaging (32.5 yards per return in his career entering), which is 5.8 yards better than the school record (minimum 30 attempts).
- Scored on a 1-yard touchdown run.
- Has now caught a pass in 31 consecutive games, which includes every game of his career.
- Boasts the second-longest streak in the SEC and is one of just two players in the league with catches in 20 or more consecutive games.
- Now second in school history with 175 career receptions.
- School record: 199, Fred Ross (2013-16).
- Rushed a career-high eight times for a career-best 36 yards.
- Caught a career-high four passes.
- Returned the first kickoff of his career for 32 yards.
- Finished with two returns for 55 yards.
- Posted his 26th career 200-yard passing game, which is second in MSU history.
- School record: 29, Dak Prescott (2012-15).
- Holds the SEC career record with 1,002 completions.
- Became the second-fastest player in FBS history to reach 1,000 career completions, needing just 30 games.
- Trails only Luke Falk (Washington State) who needed just 29 games under Mike Leach.
- Became the second-fastest player in FBS history to reach 1,000 career completions, needing just 30 games.
- Has thrown for 9,259 career passing yards, which is 117 yards shy of the school record.
- School Record: 9,376, Dak Prescott (2012-15).
- Has recorded 9,023 career total offense yards, which ranks third in MSU history.
- No. 2: 9,814, Nick Fitzgerald (2015-18).
- Hauled in a career-high eight receptions for a team-leading 73 yards.
- Now has five games of five receptions in his career.
- Now 10th in school history with 124 career receptions.
- No. 9: 132, Dillon Johnson (2020-pr.).
- Now seventh in school history with 134 career receptions.
- No. 6: 139, Justin Jenkins (2000-03).
- Has now played in a school-record 58 career games with 34 career starts.
- Recorded a strip sack in the third quarter that was recovered by the offense.
- It was his third sack of the season and sixth of his career.
- It was his second career forced fumble.
- Recorded a 3-yard tackle for loss in the fourth quarter.
- Marked his third tackle for loss of the year and seventh of his career.
- Recorded a career-high 2.0 tackles for loss.
- Now has 11.5 for his career and 5.0 this season.
- Recorded a career-high 2.0 tackles for loss.
- Now has 4.0 in his career.
- Recorded a tackle for loss in the fourth quarter.
- Boasts 18.5 career tackles for loss.
- Added a QB hurry.
- Recorded a career-high-tying two pass breakups, both in the end zone.
- Now nine career breakups and 11 total pass defenses.
- Added a tackle for loss and five total tackles.
- Marked his first tackle for loss of the season.
- Recorded his fourth sack of the season and ninth of his career.
- Led MSU in tackles for the fourth time this year with 10.
- It was his sixth career double-digit tackle game.
- Recorded a season-high seven total tackles, which was second on the team.
- Added a QB hurry.
- Matched his career-long punt with a 60-yard boot in the second quarter.
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