After suffering a 27 point defeat last season to the hands of the Minnesota, Michigan State football will head to Minneapolis for the first time in six years to take on the four-win Golden Gophers this Saturday afternoon.
With a sense of quarterback “uncertainty” moving forward and the benching of the week one starter displayed, it isn’t crazy to think that the locker room chemistry would suffer from the coaching decisions, especially within the position room. Leavitt and Houser have said it has been the opposite for the three Michigan State quarterbacks.
The roster has gone through a lot of reconstruction, most notably with who is playing on the field week in and week out. Nevertheless, Minnesota is now on the clock, and that is the focus for Michigan State. With Barnett looking for his first win since taking over the head coaching position, there is constant adversity to be faced when put in such a tough position. Nothing has been easy for the Spartans this season, but they will continue to battle.
Following a crushing defeat to Michigan on Saturday night, Michigan State Football is likely to lose another player to the transfer portal, interim head coach Harlon Barnett announced during his weekly press conference Monday.
This year's battle for the Paul Bunyan Trophy was pure domination, and the Michigan State Football Team ended up on the wrong side of it. The Spartans suffered a 49-0 loss to Michigan, which was the worst home loss ever in program history. The stat sheet was a good tale of the story for the whole night. MSU was outclassed in all phases, as they only could generate 182 total yards compared to Michigan’s 477.
Michigan State football (2-5) could not muster a single point against Michigan, while the second ranked team in the nation scored six touchdowns en route to a 49-0 win in the rivalry’s first game under the lights at Spartan Stadium.
East Lansing was filled with energy as fans of Michigan State University Spartans and University of Michigan Wolverines counted down the hours until kickoff for their annual rivalry football game.
After dropping their fourth straight game, Michigan State Football will host arguably their best opponent all year as they welcome Michigan to town for the battle of the Paul Bunyan Trophy. The Wolverines come into the matchup ranked No. 2 as the Spartans will try to pull off the significant upset. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. this Saturday on NBC.
Michigan State football, who is currently on a four game losing streak coupled with just two wins on the season, will host rival No.2 Michigan this weekend in East Lansing for the first time under the lights to decide who will bring home the Paul Bunyan trophy.
It is no secret that the Michigan State Football team has struggled as of late on the field. After winning their first two games, the Spartans have dropped four straight, and the road doesn’t get much easier ahead. This week's task for MSU is the battle for the Paul Bunyan Trophy, a primetime game against No. 2 ranked Michigan, and the players know what is at stake.
MSU football looked to a new leader of the offense in their 27-24 loss on the road to Rutgers this afternoon, but despite the loss, redshirt freshman Katin Houser didn’t disappoint in his first career start. He wasn’t perfect, throwing a couple of passes that had chances of being intercepted, but his three-touchdown performance should solidify him as the starter for the foreseeable future.
Know Thy Enemy is a Q&A where the perspective changes from the eyes of The State News to the eyes of the student newspaper of Michigan State's opponent. This week, The State News' football beat writer Nick Lundberg spoke with Ellis Gordon and Jake Rabenhorst of The Daily Targum ahead of Saturday's Michigan State-Rutgers game.
Looking to avoid a fourth straight loss, Michigan State Football will hit the road for the second game in a row as they are set to battle with Rutgers on Saturday. Heading to Rutgers, MSU will have an opportunity to pick up their first conference win as they are 0-2 and at the bottom of the Big Ten standings thus far.
A third player has announced that they will be stepping away from the Michigan State Football program following the bye week interim head coach Harlon Barnett announced during his weekly press conference on Monday. This time, senior running back Jordon Simmons expressed his intentions to consider entering the transfer portal.
Last November, a 22 yard field goal was all that MSU needed to earn a sixth win to be eligible for a bowl game. For most kicker’s, that is a chip shot, but Auburn graduate transfer Ben Patton’s boot was pushed left. That sequence summed up a miserable 2022 from the field goal kicking unit. This year, the addition of North Carolina graduate transfer Johnathan Kim has given special teams coach Ross Els reason to trust his kicker to get three points when in reasonable range, along with the replacement of NFL sixth round pick Bryce Baringer with redshirt freshman punter Ryan Eckley.
The offense has looked quite interesting for the Michigan State Football team so far this season through five games. The first two weeks have been a completely different tale than the last three matchups. A big reason for this sudden change stems at the quarterback position.
The last three weeks of 2023 have given Michigan State football a number of issues that require deep looks in the mirror, whether it be a 34 point loss to the No. 7 Washington Huskies at home or a 16 point showing in their first road game last week to the Iowa Hawkeyes, but it hasn’t been all bad on both sides of the ball for the Spartans.
The Big Ten Conference announces it will become division-less starting in 2024 with its additions of Oregon, Washington, UCLA, and USC.
At the bye week of the 2023 season, the Michigan State Football team has had lots of ups and downs. Through the shakiness of the season thus far, there have been players who have stood out on the field, and some who are wishing their campaign started a bit stronger.
The 2023 season has been quite the rollercoaster for the Michigan State Football team. Following the firing of Head Coach Mel Tucker for cause officially last Wednesday, a new identity is demanded by the Spartan faithful as the program attempts to restore the culture it once had before Tucker’s incident. Athletic Director Alan Haller issued a community letter on Monday to recognize the frustrations the MSU fan base has in addition to providing an update on Michigan State’s plan to conduct a head coaching search to fill the role. The Spartans are winless in the three games coached by interim head coach Harlon Barnett after Tucker was suspended back on Sept. 10.