Klang Klang Klang Trivia Quiz

Answer: Rebels

When the football program started in 1895, the team was known as the Mississippi A&M Aggies. The Mississippi state legislature changed the name of the school from Mississippi A&M to Mississippi State College in 1925. The football team's mascot was changed from Aggies to Maroons in 1932.

The Mississippi state legislature changed the name of the school to Mississippi State University in 1958. The football team officially changed its mascot from Maroons to Bulldogs in 1960. The Rebels mascot belongs to the Ole Miss football team.

Answer: A cow wandered onto the field after a game

During a football game in the 1930s between Mississippi State University and arch-rival Ole Miss, a cow wandered onto the playing field. Mississippi State University won that game. The students considered the cow to be a good luck charm. The students began bringing a cow to each football game but eventually it was just the bell.

Answer: The Egg Bowl

Beginning in 1927, Mississippi State University played Ole Miss in the "The Battle for the Golden Egg". This game became more commonly known as the Egg Bowl. The winner of each game keeps the "Golden Egg Trophy" until the next game in the series is played.

Mississippi State University and Ole Miss have played rivalry games in college baseball known as the Mayor's Cup and the Governor's Cup. The Magnolia Bowl doesn't involve the Mississippi State University football team.

Answer: 1914

Mississippi State University opened an on campus football facility called New Athletic Field for the 1914 season. In 1920, the facility was renamed Scott Field after star athletic alumnus Don Magruder Scott. In 2001, the stadium was named Davis Wade Stadium after a massive contribution from a school donor named Floyd Davis Wade, Sr.

Georgia Tech's Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field opened in 1913 making it the oldest stadium in NCAA Division I FBS. In 1915, Ole Miss's Vaught-Hemingway Stadium opened.

Answer: 1941

The Mississippi State University football team win its only Southeastern Conference football championship. The team had a record of four conference wins, no conference losses and one conference tie that season. In 1998, Mississippi State University football team lost the Southeastern Conference football championship game to the University of Tennessee football team.

Answer: University of Alabama

On November 1, 1980, the Mississippi State University football team defeated the then number one ranked University of Alabama football by a score of 6 to 3. This game was played at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson, Mississippi.

Bear Bryant coached the University of Alabama football team that season. The University of Alabama football team had its twenty-eight game winning streak ended that game. The University of Alabama football team also had its twenty-seven Southeastern Conference game winning streak ended that same game. The University of Alabama football team lost to the Mississippi State University football team for the first time since 1957.

Answer: Jackie Sherril

Jackie Sherrill was hired as the head football coach at Mississippi State University in 1991. Sherrill served as the head football coach at Washington State University, the University of Pittsburgh and Texas A&M University. Sherrill won seventy-five games at Mississippi State University. Sherrill led the team to three Peach Bowl appearances and one Cotton Bowl appearance.

Answer: Sylvester Croom

Sylvester Croom was an assistant football coach at the University of Alabama for eleven years and in the National Football League for seventeen prior to the 2004 football season. Croom was the head football coach for the Mississippi State University team from 2004 through 2008. Croom was the first African American head football coach in the Southeastern Conference. Croom compiled a record of twenty-one wins and thirty-eight losses while coaching at Mississippi State University.

Answer: yes

Starting in the 2014 college football season, the College Football Playoff system replaced the Bowl Championship Series to determine the national championship. After week eight of the season, a committee would announce the weekly College Football Playoff rankings.

In the first three College Football Playoff rankings of the 2014 season, the Mississippi State University football team were ranked number one.

Answer: Dak Prescott

Dak Prescott played quarterback on the Mississippi State University football team from 2011-2015. Prescott won the Conerly Trophy for being the best college football player in the state of Mississippi in 2014 and 2015. Prescott was also named first-team All-SEC in 2014 and 2015. In the 2016 NFL Draft, Dak Prescott was selected in the fourth round by the Dallas Cowboys.