His first head coaching job is not an easy one. Mississippi State has started the year 2-7 and 0-5 in SEC play. The Bulldogs look like a team that has no answers.However, most of their problems have come on the defensive side of the ball,

Even during a seven-game losing streak, M State football took to heart the lessons taught by first-year coach Jeff Lebby.

Josh Heupel and Jeff Lebby might not have been able to predict where they would be in 2024. Lebby had aspirations of being a college football player at the University of Oklahoma before an injury ended his career and coaching was his next step.

Jeff Lebby coached with, for and against Tennessee coach Josh Heupel and now the two will face off on opposite sidelines as head coaches of SEC programs.

STARKVILLE — Jeff Lebby has worked for three current Southeastern Conference head coaches, but his first stop as a Division I offensive coordinator came at Central Florida, where the Knights had just hired Josh Heupel to lead their program in December 2017.

First-year coach Jeff Lebby held his weekly press conference on Monday and spent a lot of time talking about his team’s defense.