MSU color analyst Matt Wyatt gives his take on Aggies/Bulldogs

Key notes from Matt Wyatt interview

• I always tell people Kyle Field is my favorite place to go. Not Baton Rouge or Tuscaloosa. Tuscaloosa is big but the way Kyle Field is built, 100,000 people feels more like 300,000. I tell people they need to go if they haven’t been.
   
• Scott Strickland was the AD at the time in 2013. He couldn’t put his finger on it but there was something that happened to Mississippi State and Dak Prescott in that 2013 A&M game where they made a run. They didn’t quite finish it off put propelled them the rest of the season and into the next.
   
• It’s been a big difference between being home and away for Mississippi State this year. They’ve played bad on the road other than Georgia. People are saying if this game was at home, State would for sure win. They have played so much better at home. We don’t know what we’re going to see this week.
   
• Mullen is only going to play guys at running back if he’s confident that whatever they call, you don’t have to ask what to do. He doesn’t care if you’re a top recruit coming in. You can’t have a guy with 10 seconds on the play clock and checks at the line of scrimmage and the running back doesn’t know what to do. Once they got there mentally the running game took off.
   
• Todd Grantham, the new DC, has been big. He has them loose and going hard each play. They’ve gotten hurt on a few plays because they’re going so hard. He has them playing downhill. The biggest thing is he's added energy and instinctual play.
   
• My first key every week is always finding a way to run the ball for 200 yards. The win-loss is pretty cut and dry on that 200-yard mark. Mississippi State hasn’t recruited at a high level in the receiver position. Their pass game is getting people open based off the run. They can’t depend on a guy to just beat somebody one-on-one.
   
• I think Dan Mullen is still at Mississippi State next year. For him, I think some of the wrong jobs are going to come open, instead of the right ones for him. He’s at a place where he’s in the top-15 highest paid coaches in the country. They’ll offer him a few million dollars to stay if he gets other job interest.