Is this really it? It’s the midpoint of the college football season, and this MSU team (4-2 overall, 1-1 Big Ten) still is as confounding and, maybe more appropriately, dumbfounding as it was when it opened the season.
One minute and 17 seconds. In one, quick instant the Spartans heralded defense surrendered a touchdown, and the Hoosiers’ early flash proved to just be the beginning.
At halftime in Memorial Stadium Saturday afternoon, the Spartans’ Rose Bowl dreams were on life support.
For the fifth time in six games, the Spartans rallied from a halftime deficit, this time trailing Indiana (2-3, 0-2) 27-14 after two quarters, before outscoring the Hoosiers by 17 points in the second half to knock off Indiana 31-27.
It was a first half unlike any other this season for the MSU football team (3-2 overall, 0-1 Big Ten), as the Indiana Hoosiers (2-2, 0-1) left the field to raucous cheers, leading the Spartans 27-14.
If premedical sophomore Desiree Clenney could have her way, she’d like to see the student section at Spartan Stadium filled with only one color: pink.
Coming off the heels of a 17-16 loss to No. 12 Ohio State, the MSU football team (3-2 overall, 0-1 Big Ten) is prepared to attack the rest of the conference season as it travels to Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Ind., to take on the Indiana Hoosiers (2-2 overall, 0-1 Big Ten) at noon on Saturday.
On Thursday, the Big Ten announced that MSU football (3-2 overall, 0-1 Big Ten) redshirt freshman offensive guard Jack Allen will not face disciplinary action following the conference’s review of Saturday’s game against Ohio State.
For Dion Sims, there’s no more time to wait. He waited a year for the chance to be a part of the MSU football team (3-2 overall, 0-1 Big Ten) after being suspended for his involvement in the theft of 104 Detroit Public Schools computers in 2010.
With the way the receiving game has struggled through five weeks of the season, it wasn’t a huge surprise when MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio bumped junior wideout Bennie Fowler to second string in favor of true freshman Aaron Burbridge.
When Andrew Maxwell made his way to the podium for his weekly press conference, it was the junior quarterback who was on the receiving end of the team’s most recent bit of news.
Lawrence Thomas is used to change. A redshirt freshman, Thomas came to MSU as one of the nation’s top linebacker prospects. But in spring camp, Thomas was asked to move to defensive end, being thrust into a new position before he’d even stepped on the field.
Trailing No. 12 Ohio State 10-6 in the third quarter, junior quarterback Andrew Maxwell addressed his teammates as they prepared to get the ball back. “I said, ‘Who’s going to be the first one to make a play?
As he lay on the grass, screaming out in pain, it was clear Travis Jackson wouldn’t be able to walk off the field on his own. But it wasn’t until after the MSU football team’s (3-2 overall, 0-1 Big Ten) starting center was carted off the field that the extent of his injury was known.
While the majority of MSU’s fan base was throwing their hands up in futility after Saturday’s 17-16 loss to No. 12 Ohio State, Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer opened his postgame press conference with truer words than most of the Spartan faithful realize.
The sound of the horses’ hooves against the pavement has become a somewhat familiar sound on the streets of East Lansing on weekends with home football games.
Saturday’s 17-16 loss to No. 12 Ohio State (5-0 overall, 1-0 Big Ten) was made more painful for the MSU football team (3-2, 0-1) as the Spartans learned sophomore center Travis Jackson suffered a broken leg and a torn medial collateral ligament, or MCL.
In between the booing of all things Michigan and the plethora of signs exclaiming “Next Question,” ESPN’s College GameDay broadcast from East Lansing on Saturday morning with the beautiful Beaumont Tower in the background.
There was a slight bit of controversy following No. 14 Ohio State’s (5-0 overall, 1-0 Big Ten) 17-16 victory over the No. 20 MSU football team (3-2, 0-1) on Saturday, as MSU associate athletic director John Lewandowski said the Spartans received “incomplete,” game film from Ohio State prior to the game, a violation of Big Ten rules.