Well, this isn’t exactly the best spot for Zach Arnett and his Mississippi State Bulldogs. Heading into the 2023 MSU football season and it looks like the Mississippi State football team will get the perfect opportunity to start proving some folks wrong.

That’s right, the Miss. State football team isn’t being held in incredibly high regard by several folks out there. And that also kind of technically includes the magic number crunching robo math systems that go into ESPN’s Football Power Index.

ESPN’s FPI doesn’t look at MS State football heading into the 2023 season and come away all that impressed. According to ESPN FPI rankings, the mystical calculations that generate numbers and rankings have the Bulldogs toward the bottom of the Southeastern Conference despite the fact that MSU finished at 9-4 a season ago.

Here’s how things look in the SEC going into this season:

ESPN FPI ranks Mississippi State football 10th in the SEC

Here’s how things look in the SEC, according to the FPI 2023 preseason rankings:

To get a more comprehensive view of what this year could look like for Arnett and his Miss. State football team, here’s how ESPN’s FPI projects things for Mississippi State as the Bulldogs head into the 2023 season: