It's been a long road at MSU for redshirt senior defensive lineman Maverick Hansen, who will be playing in East Lansing for the last time this weekend. While he has served as a rotational player for most of his career, his impact goes far beyond statistics.

"I'll take 100 Mavericks on my team," Reynolds said. "He's been a joy to coach. He's really on the details; he pushes guys to be great. He's the ultimate student-athlete. He's going to do everything on and off the field the right way. He's gonna push everyone around him to do things the right way. It's baffling to him when someone doesn't do something right on or off the field. I love that about him."

In his five years in the green and white, Hansen has seen a lot of ups and downs with the program. Amid a six-game losing streak, he knows just how big a win on Saturday could mean not just for him and his fellow seniors but for the younger guys on the team who are struggling dealing with adversity of this magnitude for the first time. 

"It would mean a lot to get a win," Hansen said. "I feel like a lot of guys are sluggish right now. Not myself, though; I'm going to go out and play and do my best at the end of the day, but for the younger guys, it's tough because they're dealing with losing at this level for the first time. I've been on losing teams before, and you gotta just stick together and come out of it."

For the other line, redshirt senior offensive lineman J.D. Duplain has been playing for the green and white just as long as Hansen has. While he's not sure how it'll feel stepping out at Spartan Stadium for the last time, he knows that his emotions will be running high.

"I always want to win, and I always have high emotions for games," Duplain said. "For that emotional change, I can't say right now since I am not out there yet, but my mindset's going to be on winning a football game because it always is."

Kick-off is set for 12 p.m. this Saturday on FS1.