For some teams they could get an entire month or an entire offseason to prepare for a team like Alabama and it still wouldn't matter. With all the 5-stars and top tier talent, the Crimson Tide would still find a way to make it work against most. For Mike Leach and Mississippi State, while they're coming off a bye week to face the Tide, Leach doesn't think it will have a big impact.

Per 247sports, Leach is confident in his Mississippi State team heading into this matchup but isn't buying into the notion that the extra week off is an advantage for the Bulldogs.

“I don’t think it really helps your preparation a great deal. I mean, you get to string it out a little more, but … you’re gonna be doing basic things that you and you’re trying to select which of those would be the best against a particular opponent. But I don’t think drawing it out helps that way.”

Leach did note that for Mississippi State and teams in general, getting the bye week can help with rest and recovery but in his opinion, that's about it.

“Sometimes your team may need, I don’t know, to rest up, I guess, or something like that, which I think is why everybody shoots for having their off week somewhere around the middle of the season. But I don’t know that the extra week helps because, yeah, one week, it’s compacted and you have to do a lot of things in a short period of time, which you’re definitely used to doing because you do it all the time. But your kids can only absorb so much, and you sit there and just obsess over one thing for too long a period of time, it goes stale.”

Saturday will throw the college football world of its axis if Mississippi State were to pull off the upset and make it two straight losses for Alabama.