Nate Oats sets up Saturday's game against Mississippi State

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00:00 We've got a big home game.

00:04 Hopefully, get the play sold out and rack it like it's been.

00:10 I think our fans have been great.

00:12 The student section has been great.

00:14 So, we're in February now.

00:18 Getting on this track, trying to find...

00:21 We don't try to win the league.

00:23 You've got to play well in February, that's for sure.

00:25 We need a good start to the month in the Mississippi States.

00:30 Shoot, they're really good.

00:33 There's only three teams in our league that have beaten multiple top ten teams.

00:39 They're one of them.

00:41 They beat Tennessee when they're in the top ten, beat Auburn when they're in the top ten.

00:44 They're capable of beating anybody on any given night because they're so tough and physical.

00:50 They play defense at such an elite level and they've got some big-time scores.

00:55 They're also, I believe, the only team with two top ten scores in the SEC, with Tolu and Hubbard both being in the top ten.

01:05 Hubbard's been playing really well for a freshman.

01:09 Tolu's maybe the best pig in the league, for sure, one of the top couple pigs in the league.

01:15 We've got our hands full.

01:17 We've got to be better defensively.

01:19 We've got to have a better start.

01:21 I can't plan on getting down 17-2.

01:24 I think six of our eight SEC games we've been down at the first meeting timeout.

01:28 We've been preaching the starts.

01:31 We had a better one against LSU and then it went, obviously, really south against Georgia.

01:36 It's going to be a tough game on the Mississippi States.

01:41 Well-coached, play hard, tough, physical.

01:45 They've got some big-time scores that we've got to do a good job on.

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