Led by the penetration from the defensive line, the Spartans held Iowa running back Marcus Coker to 57 yards — his second lowest total of the season.
Last season, the Spartans left Kinnick Stadium with their heads hanging as the Hawkeye crowd chanted “overrated.”
Kirk Cousins remembers the last time he played at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City. He threw three interceptions — two in the first half — against Iowa in the Spartans’ 37-6 loss — their first of 2010.
This is the rematch the No. 13 MSU football team has waited for. After a little more than a year of waiting, the Spartans get their chance to redeem themselves of a 37-6 loss to Iowa in Kinnick Stadium last season. Similar to last year’s matchup, there are major implications in Saturday’s game.
With the recent child sex abuse scandal at Penn State, the school’s Board of Trustees fired football head coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier Wednesday.
The No. 13 MSU football team’s offense is known to play well at Spartan Stadium, but playing on the road has been a slightly different story.
It was quite the interesting weekend in the Big Ten. Nebraska fell to Northwestern at home, and Michigan couldn’t complete a comeback against Iowa on the road.
Sitting at the top of the Legends Division in the Big Ten, the No. 13 MSU football team has adopted a survive-and-advance mentality to get through the end of the regular season.
It’s an interesting dynamic to take control of the division but still have to talk about Saturday’s ugly 31-24 win, in which MSU allowed the conference’s worst team to hang around for 59 minutes and 30 seconds before remembering it is supposed to be one of the best teams in the country.
Despite not always being able to convert for a touchdown Saturday, the No. 15 Spartans’ offense held the game together and kept the team moving up the field against Minnesota.
An MSU team that appeared to be sleeping through the game’s first 29 minutes, finally woke up. Although they endured some shots from the home Spartan Stadium crowd, the Spartans (7-2 overall, 4-1 Big Ten) escaped Minnesota (2-7, 1-4) with a win, 31-24.
After failing to score a touchdown for the first time since the 2003 Alamo Bowl — also against Nebraska — Cousins and his team look to get back on track this Saturday (noon, Big Ten Network) in Spartan Stadium against Minnesota (2-6 overall, 1-3 Big Ten).
Sophomore linebacker Kyler Elsworth was recruited for wrestling, but turned down his scholarship to try out for the MSU football team. Now in his second year on the field, Elsworth has gone from being a walk-on to being a key player against Wisconsin — blocking a punt that was recovered for a touchdown for the Spartans before halftime in their 37-31 victory.
The No. 15 MSU football team faces a unique challenge in defending 6-foot-4, 240-pound Minnesota quarterback MarQueis Gray, and there’s probably few on the team who understand that like Isaiah Lewis.
This week, the Big Ten’s “Honoring Legends. Building Leaders.” tour will be in East Lansing from Thursday to Saturday for the No. 15 MSU football team’s game against Minnesota (noon, Big Ten Network).
MSU’s emotions were running high in the month’s first three games, but at his weekly press conference Tuesday, head coach Mark Dantonio said emotion appeared to be a missing ingredient Saturday
Usually, I start my look back at the weekend with something that signified the No. 15 MSU football team’s previous game.
October is finally over for the No. 15 MSU football team. And although the Spartans (6-2 overall, 3-1 Big Ten) concluded the most brutal stretch of their schedule with a 24-3 loss to Nebraska, they likely won’t hang their heads for long.
Despite getting MSU’s football team off to a pretty good 6-2 start this season, Kirk Cousins has taken a lot of criticism — some deserved, but much of it unwarranted when you consider the bullets he can throw.
Lincoln, NE — Eighty-six yards and a completion percentage of just over 40 wasn’t going to get it done against No.