{"id":400251,"date":"2025-09-27T05:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T05:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/400251\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T05:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T05:40:14","slug":"game-day-sec-grind-begins-now-for-bulldogs-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/400251\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Day: SEC grind begins now for Bulldogs | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mississippi<\/p>\n

Mississippi State running back Devon Booth, left, tries to avoid the tackle of a Tennessee defender during last year\u2019s meeting in Knoxville.<\/p>\n

SDN file photo<\/p>\n

As good as the 4-0 start has been for head coach Jeff Lebby’s Bulldogs, the schedule is about to get much tougher with the start of Southeastern Conference play.<\/p>\n

The grind for MSU begins at home Saturday against Tennessee then comes Texas A&M, Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia, Missouri and Ole Miss in quick order.<\/p>\n

Lebby has now one year of experience under his belt as a head coach. He understands there is nothing easy about the SEC but has a simple way of dealing with it.<\/p>\n

For more on this story, read our news edition from Saturday, September 27 weekend edition or\u00a0click here to subscribe to our e-edition.\u2028<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mississippi State running back Devon Booth, left, tries to avoid the tackle of a Tennessee defender during last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[265,331,5075,67,7,5071,5067,18178,49,5065,5070,65,70,63,48,5063,5064,5068,5066],"class_list":{"0":"post-400251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-american-football","9":"tag-college-football","10":"tag-college-football-bowls","11":"tag-college-football-conference-seasons","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-former-southern-conference-teams","14":"tag-former-southern-intercollegiate-athletic-association-teams","15":"tag-mississippi-state-bulldogs-football","16":"tag-ncaa","17":"tag-ncaa-division-i","18":"tag-ncaa-division-i-conferences","19":"tag-ncaa-division-i-fbs-football","20":"tag-ncaa-division-i-fbs-football-seasons","21":"tag-ncaa-division-i-fbs-football-teams","22":"tag-ncaa-football","23":"tag-southeastern-conference","24":"tag-southeastern-conference-football","25":"tag-southeastern-conference-football-seasons","26":"tag-southeastern-conference-teams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}