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LOOK: Mississippi State will dress Patriotic for visit to UMass Saturday

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s true, Mississippi State and Adidas are huge fans of the New England Patriots.

The Bulldogs will pay Massachusetts a visit -- and not for a vacation, an actual football game -- on Saturday, and the Minutemen will use the Patriots’ Gillette Stadium as their own.

So Mississippi State will dress like the Patriots.

Take a look, and then compare with the shot of the Patriots’ uniform above.

Mississippi State and UMass have never met previously, so how is this a “homecoming,” as Adidas describes it? Bulldogs head coach Dan Mullen grew up in Manchester, N.H., which Google Maps tells me is just a short two-hour drive from Foxborough.

Anything you can do to psyche yourself up to play UMass in an empty stadium, I guess.