Mississippi State has been active recently in lining up future home-and-home series’ against power five conference opponents.
In June, the Bulldogs announced a 2022-23 football series against the Arizona Wildcats. Then earlier this month, MSU scheduled a series with the NC State Wolfpack for 2020 and 2021.
In what could be a first, Mississippi State director of athletics Scott Stricklin and Kansas State director of athletics John Currie agreed today, on Twitter, to a home-and-home football series to be played in 2018 and 2019.
Here are how the tweets played out:
The Chillin’ 4 Charity video that Stricklin references is available to view on Youtube. Scott Stricklin had earlier tweeted John Currie and challenged him to have a bucket of ice water dumped on him, which is the crux of #Chillin4Charity.
After having three buckets of ice water dumped on him by K-State football players, John Currie offers a challenge to Scott Stricklin at Mississippi State.
“Now, we’ve got one more thing here for Scott Stricklin and Mississippi State. We think that Mississippi State ought to come here to Bill Snyder Family Stadium and play a little football sometime.”
That sometime looks like it will be 2018 in Manahattan, with K-State returning the trip to Starkville in 2019.
Should the two athletic directors put pen to paper, the 2018 game will be the first meeting between the two since a home-and-home series back in 1974 and 1977. The Bulldogs won both contests, but later forfeited the 1977 result.
The series would also satisfy Mississippi State’s power five non-conference scheduling mandate for 2018 and 2019. MSU still needs opponents for 2016 and 2017, however, and those were the two dates that Stricklin initially requested.
Kansas State now has, tentatively, two non-conference opponents set for both the 2018 and 2019 seasons. The Wildcats are scheduled to host UTSA in 2018 and Bowling Green in 2019.
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