STARKVILLE – With every game, Dak Prescott’s legacy continues to grow.
The Mississippi State senior quarterback broke another career passing record in a 45-20 victory over Louisiana Tech Saturday afternoon at Davis Wade Stadium.
“I guess you want that,” Prescott said. “I’m not going to say I’ve never thought about that, but I’m just worried about winning. I’m sure next year it will be even better when I look back on it.”
Prescott now has 917 passing attempts, breaking Wayne Madkin’s school record (887 from 1998-2001) for the most in school history. He now owns every career passing record in Bulldog history and has broken 23 school records (12 single-season, 11 career) during his four-year career.
Prescott completed 30 of 43 passes for 347 yards and three touchdowns. He rushed for 34 yards and another touchdown. With a 5-yard touchdown to De’Runnya Wilson in the second quarter, Prescott joined Florida’s Tim Tebow and Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel as the only Southeastern Conference quarterbacks in history to total 50 career passing touchdowns and 30 career rushing touchdowns.
With four touchdowns, Presoctt now is tied for seventh in SEC history with 90 touchdowns responsible for. Kentucky’s Jared Lorenzen had 90 from 2000-03.
The 34 rushing yards were good enough for Prescott to pass Manziel for fourth place all-time in SEC history in career rushing yards by a quarterback (2,182).
“I was impressed because he is starting to get back and find his balance on when to pull it down and start running,” MSU coach Dan Mullen said. “The first couple of games of the season he has done a great job of getting third and fourth progressions. He is stating to see and understand coverages so he doesn’t have to hold the ball in the pocket for too long and get sacked.”
Prescott is the only active NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision player with at least 6,000 career yards passing and 2,000 career yards rushing. The Haugton, Louisiana, native extended his non-interception streak to 274. He has not thrown an interception since last year’s loss to Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl.
Wilson in good company
Junior wide receiver De’Runnya Wilson is starting to write his name in the MSU history books along with Prescott.
Including the 5-yard touchdown, Wilson hauled in a 20-yard score from Prescott to give him 17 in his career. That is tied for second in school-history with Eric Moulds (1993-95) and Justin Jenkins (2000-03).
“I actually dedicated one of those touchdowns to my son,” Wilson said, whose son Kash, accompanied him to the press conference. “I knew what it took to go out there and make the play. That’s all I try to do for the team, is go out there and make the big play whenever the ball is thrown to me.”
He finished the game with seven catches for 85 yards.
Injury update
Senior wide receiver Joe Morrow, sophomore wide receiver Gabe Myles, junior running back Ashton Shumpert, and freshman safety Jamal Peters did not play due to injury.
Morrow (shoulder) and Myles (left foot) missed last week, but Mullen hopes they will be ready to go for this week’s upcoming game with Kentucky.
Shumpert had back problems earlier this week, and didn’t feel up to playing during warmups. Peters didn’t practice at all this week.
Junior wide receiver Fred Ross left the game in the first half, but returned for the second half. He played sparingly in the final 30 minutes and had three catches for 36 yards.
Junior tight end Gus Walley took a vicious hit in the end zone in the first half and limped into the locker room. He never returned.
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