On Monday’s Dear Ol’ State podcast, Mississippi State head coach Chris Jans announced that his Bulldog squad will play a pair of closed-door scrimmages. During the podcast, Jans noted that Mississippi State will host Western Kentucky at Humphrey Coliseum on October 12th before traveling to Birmingham, Ala., to face Georgia Tech on October 27th. Both scrimmages will be closed to media and fans. Mississippi State is coming off a 21-14 season in the 2023-24 campaign and the Bulldogs also finished 8-10 in the SEC. For the second straight season, the Bulldogs earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tour…