The first major college football game played after 9/11 took place in Starkville, Mississippi, where the Bulldogs faced South Carolina in a game presented as carrying significance beyond its result.
The game was described as an honor to those who served the country and to the people who lost their lives in the attack.
Jon Ross Myers founded Mississippi News Group in 2013. Before founding the organization, he worked at The Daily Mississippian, The Marion Salute and The Southern Sentinel. A Mississippi journalist and writer based in Ripley, he received second place in poetry in the 2025 William Faulkner Literary Competition for "The Garden."
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