Former Louisville High School standout Daylen Gill was set to return to his Alma Mater Wednesday night at 7 where he planned to sigh a football scholarship to play for the University of Mississippi.
Gill, a 6-foot, 230-pound linebacker, Recorded 61 total tackles this past season at Jones College as a sophomore. He recorded 61 total tackles including 17 for a loss. He also intercepted one pass and recovered a fumble for the Bobcats.
— Austin Bishop
MISSISSIPPI FLAVOR
LSU and their two Heisman Trophy winners have a connection to Mississippi. Burrow's dad Jimmy grew up in Amory. Jimmy played quarterback for the Amory Panthers before moving on to Ole Miss as a walk-on for a short time before receiving a scholarship offer from Nebraska.
Another native Mississippian to win the Heisman was the 1959 winner Billy Cannon. He was born in Philadelphia before his dad moved to Baton Rouge during World War II.
— Dale McKee
MSU RANKED NO. 6
For the first time since 2014, the Mississippi State baseball program will begin a season ranked among the top 10 nationally, as Collegiate Baseball Newspaper has tabbed the Bulldogs No. 6 in its preseason poll on Monday (Dec. 16).
The preseason No. 6 ranking is the highest for the program since being No. 2 in Collegiate Baseball's preseason rankings in 2014. That season, MSU was a consensus top-10 team to start the season and advanced to the championship game of the NCAA Lafayette Regional.
Collegiate Baseball's 2020 preseason poll has eight of MSU's opponents ranked among the top 40, including five among the top 11 teams. Non-Conference opponents Oregon State (No. 32), Texas Tech (No. 3) and South Alabama (No. 23), along with Southeastern Conference foes Arkansas (No. 9), LSU (No. 11), Auburn (No. 9), Texas A&M (No. 21) and Vanderbilt (No. 2) are all among the teams ranked in the preseason.
— School Reports
SEC BOWL
SEASON
The bowl season for the Southeastern Conference won’t start until Dec. 27, when Texas A&M takes on Oklahoma State in the Academy Sports/Outdoors Texas Bowl in Houston at 5:45 p.m.
The biggest SEC-connected game on the horizon is the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl in Atlanta on Dec. 28 between No. 1-ranked LSU and No. 4 Oklahoma at 3 p.m. in the National Championship semifinal matchup.
The winner takes on the Clemson-Ohio State winner in the National Championship Game on Jan. 13 in New Orleans at 7 p.m.
Mississippi State faces Louisville in the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl on Dec. 30 at 4 p.m. in Nashville. We will take a look at the other SEC bowl-affiliated matchups next week.
— Austin Bishop
GULF COAST WINS 5TH TITLE
Mississippi Gulf Coast won its fifth national football national championship on Dec. 5 besting a rugged No. 2 Lackawanna team in a 24-13 thriller at Carnie Smith Stadium in the NJCAA National Championship Game played in Pittsburg, Kansas.
The Bulldogs closed out a perfect 2019 season with their 12th win, this one coming in the NJCAA Football Championship. Gulf Coast previously won national titles in 1948, 1971, 1984 and 2007.
Gulf Coast head coach Jack Wright became the second coach in NJCAA history to win a national championship at two different schools.
He won with Northwest Mississippi in 2015.
The Bulldogs broke the Falcons' 22-game win streak and now have the longest active streak in the country at 16.
— School Reports
KOSY NATIVE LANDS OC JOB
Former Ole Miss assistant coach Jacob Peeler, a Kosciusko native, is apparently headed to San Marcos, Texas to be offensive coordinator at Texas State University.
Peeler, coached wide receivers for three years at Ole Miss, and coached four years at the University of California prior’s to going to Oxford. He played at Holmes Community College and Louisiana Tech as an offensive lineman before getting into coaching at Itawamba community College and Independence (Kansas) Community College. He then coached at Louisiana Tech before going to the University of California.
— Austin Bishop
