Mississippi State Football: 5 Reasons the Bulldogs will roll the Tide

1. Alabama Quarterback Health

I’m not insinuating that Mississippi State should go after Tua Tagovailoa and try to hurt him, but if Tua goes down then the Tide are in some trouble. Tua already has a minor knee injury and he seemed to have been limping a bit last weekend later on and it seems that he may have exaggerated it a bit.

Jalen Hurts has played well enough to get Alabama to back-to-back national championship games and he would play well enough if they needed him so they shouldn’t worry about Tua going down right? Wrong. Jalen Hurts had minor surgery on his ankle and hasn’t quite gotten back to where he needs to be to get into the game. He’s also still available to redshirt this season and Hurts shouldn’t be used unless it’s absolutely dire.

“Who are we left with?” you might ask. Freshman Mac Jones is the answer. Jones has played very sparingly over this season and currently 2-for-7 on the season with 124 yards and a touchdown. Jones has played well enough in garbage time, but how well does he play when he’s thrust into the limelight without warning?

Alabama and Mississippi State square off in Tuscaloosa, AL at 3:30 p.m. ET on CBS. The Tide are 24-point favorites and no matter what the outcome is, they still control their own destiny in the SEC West.