STARKVILLE -- Mississippi State football coach Dan Mullen hates losing.
It didn't matter that No. 25 MSU trailed No. 14 LSU 14-3 at halftime and 21-6 at the start of the fourth quarter started. A 13-point final stanza put the Bulldogs in position to tie and win the game, but Devon Bell missed a 52-yard field goal as time expired in a 21-19 loss before a crowd of 62,531 at Davis Wade Stadium.
Mullen and MSU made second half adjustments, but there were no moral victories for the Bulldogs, who sl
Ben Wait reports on Mississippi State University sports for The Dispatch.
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