With ESPN coming to town, the Bulldogs do what they do best: Horrible, horrible Photoshopping.
These are heady days for Mississippi State football. The team has vaulted into the top 5 with victories over LSU and Texas A&M, and hosts ESPN College GameDay this weekend for the first time ever Saturday before taking on No. 2 Auburn. Quarterback Dak Prescott is receiving serious consideration for the Heisman Trophy, and the Bulldogs are dreaming of a College Football Playoff berth.
As Mississippi State has learned, there is no better way of promoting your program on national television than with that mainstay of top programs: Bad Photoshopping. It starts bad:
Tweet us your @CollegeGameDay signs. First one courtesy of @ShaneThoughts1pic.twitter.com/mSkRGGWdBE
— MSU Football (@HailStateFB) October 8, 2014And the Dak Prescott puns only get worse from there.
@HailStateFBpic.twitter.com/n7iu0OGugP
— Jamie Albanese (@JamieAlbanese) October 9, 2014LUMBERDAK done run up on a bear #HailStatepic.twitter.com/uL4rlJy6yf
— 662dawg (@662dawg) October 9, 2014@HailStateFBpic.twitter.com/SegcZofRCa
— Ben Thomas (@BenjaminLThomas) October 9, 2014Photo Gallery: YOUR @CollegeGameDay signs! Tweet us yours and we will add it to the gallery! https://t.co/TMspzgipQxpic.twitter.com/nEOuVpQpNW
— MSU Football (@HailStateFB) October 8, 2014We are going DAK TO THE FUTURE Saturda at @CollegeGameDay RT @Brennanwilbourn: Finally finished @HailStateFBpic.twitter.com/HluMxOFaZ2
— MSU Football (@HailStateFB) October 9, 2014This one is borderline inappropriate, and so awful that it's actually fantastic:
Reminds us of a SNL skit RT @DaltonMcMillen: #HailState@HailStateFBpic.twitter.com/6pPfoizF0y
— MSU Football (@HailStateFB) October 9, 2014Here's some nightmare fuel:
Dakula #hailstate@15_DakP@HailStateFBpic.twitter.com/Kv8wHwq7xb
— harper murrah (@h_murrah) October 9, 2014This one might actually be scarier:
Move over @ChadKroegerFans we got NickelDAK @CollegeGameDay@HailStateFBpic.twitter.com/8JkxDsfuap
— Trent Barrilleaux (@tbarrilleaux) October 8, 2014Retweets are endorsements:
@HailStateFB Also contemplating bringing this back from last year's LSU game. #TogaOrNah? pic.twitter.com/RCz5gbfaX4
— Bradford Trevino (@Brad_Trevino) October 8, 2014Here we have this week's GameDay winner before the show even goes on air:
@HailStateFB yay for college game day signs pic.twitter.com/BSIS2xJD3L
— Hanna Mathis (@HannaMattress) October 9, 2014It's not just Dak Prescott that gets the MS Paint treatment. Here we have cowbells mashed up with Lord of the Rings:
Photo Gallery: YOUR @CollegeGameDay signs! Tweet us yours and we will add it to the gallery! https://t.co/TMspzgipQxpic.twitter.com/ScJDnSzQxK
— MSU Football (@HailStateFB) October 8, 2014Photo Gallery: YOUR @CollegeGameDay signs! Tweet us yours and we will add it to the gallery! https://t.co/TMspzgipQxpic.twitter.com/Ny6XG0zSLD
— MSU Football (@HailStateFB) October 8, 2014Accidentally used a picture of De'Runnya with his old jersey number, so here's an update. #HailState@HailStateFBpic.twitter.com/YybtGIAF1v
— Owen McGuire (@pom5) October 8, 2014Your humble author had to get in on the action:
@HailStateFB How about this one? pic.twitter.com/awmJTV4JtV
— Patrick Vint (@HS_BHGP) October 9, 2014Last week's first-ever GameDay trip to Ole Miss was one of the best editions of the weekly pregame show ever, but if Mississippi State is going to bring game like this, it just might be topped.