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.
The No. 9 MSU football team (6-2 overall, 3-1 Big Ten) was handed its first loss of the Big Ten season Saturday, going down, 24-3, to No. 13 Nebraska (7-1, 3-1 Big Ten).
There’s nothing better than traveling to a foreign venue and preparing to play a new team and feeling confident in your ability, and the No.
“Through these gates pass the greatest fans in college football.” That is the statement written above every gate as Nebraska fans enter Memorial Stadium.
Keith Nichol’s collegiate football career has not exactly gone as expected.
Cousins said on Thursday, Nov. 3, a few days before the Minnesota game, he will be speaking at the MSU Auditorium about his faith.
The No. 9 MSU football team knew it had a challenging lineup for the month of October, opening the Big Ten season with Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin and finishing up with No. 13 Nebraska on Saturday in Lincoln, Neb.
The No. 9 MSU football team didn’t take it to the media and fight back after accusations of being a dirty team. The Spartans didn’t complain about getting completely disrespected by the national media, who proclaimed Wisconsin “unbeatable.”
Senior quarterback Kirk Cousins and sophomore linebacker Kyler Elsworth received Big Ten honors this week after the No. 9 MSU football team’s 37-31 victory over Wisconsin on Saturday.
As senior quarterback Kirk Cousins heaved the ball 44 yards up the field on a Hail Mary pass, senior wide receiver Keith Nichol waited patiently to see where it would fall.