This Saturday night at 7:30, the No. 12 MSU football team will take on the No.18 Notre Dame Fighting Irish in South Bend, Ind. for the 78th time. MSU head coach Mark Dantonio and Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly have both their teams prepared for battle, ready to carry on tone of the oldest rivalries in NCAA history.
A bye week is a time for teams to recover from their wounds and injuries before facing yet another grueling stretch on the gridiron.
Of the caveats needed to create a rivalry, usually chief among them is a fanatical dislike which lingers on full-fledged hate.
MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio and the rest of his staff kept busy this past week with practice, recruitment, and developing a game plan for combating a high powered Notre Dame offense, led by sophomore quarterback Deshone Kizer.
State News sports editor Casey Harrison and football writer Stephen Olschanski discuss Oklahoma State's shocking upset loss to Central Michigan, the NFL hypocrisy with Cam Newton and the return of MSU football's Ed Davis.
After racking up 292 total yards and accounting for six touchdowns on the road against Texas, Notre Dame quarterback Deshone Kizer cemented himself as one of the Fighting Irish's heaviest weapons.
After a year long process of surgery, rehabilitation, graduation and a drawn out paper filing process, Ed Davis will play a sixth year for the MSU football team.
After missing the 2015 football season with a torn ACL, MSU linebacker Ed Davis has been granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA. The news broke in a tweet by head football coach Mark Dantonio shortly before 11:30 a.m.
Sixth-year senior Kevin Williams is a battler. The Nebraska transfer lost both his 2011 and 2013 seasons to knee injuries and fought through a groin injury in 2015. Injuries have not kept him down, and now he plans on becoming an integral part of MSU’s defensive line rotation.
MSU football will hold a walk-on tryout meeting on Monday, Sept. 12 at 4 p.m. in the Pentecost Team Meeting Room inside the Skandalaris Football Center.
University of Buffalo, Memphis University, Oregon State University, Stanford University and MSU all have one thing in common: their bye falls in week 2 of the college football season.
MSU will enter its bye week ranked No. 8 in the nation following the release of the USA Today Coaches Poll Tuesday afternoon. After starting the year ranked No. 11 in the coaches poll, MSU's harder-than-expected victory over Furman didn't cost them any slippage in large due to two top 10 teams falling in week one.
State News sports editor Casey Harrison and football beat writer Stephen Olschanski bring you show No. 2 of the TSN Sports Podcast.
MSU football’s growing pain victory over Furman on Friday came with the caveat reserved for wins with less than desirable means of victory — they all count one.
Walking into the media wing of Spartan Stadium following his team’s grinding 28-13 win over Furman University, Mark Dantonio neither smiled nor scowled.
Postgame interviews for MSU football’s 28-13 victory over Furman began with two seniors captains; quarterback Tyler O’Connor and linebacker Riley Bullough.
Josiah Price, normally kept from the mouth of the public address announcer recorded two penalties — one a fifteen yard personal foul, the other a hold.
MSU football opened up their season with a seven play, 76 yard scoring drive in under four minutes. The following 56 were inert and underactive with flashes of potential, but mental lapses on both sides of the ball allowed Furman to stick around for the majority of the game. A philosophy one could take after MSU’s 28-13 win? Survive and advance.
On a beautiful 72 degree evening at Spartan Stadium, jam packed with 74,516 members of the Spartan faithful, the MSU football team opened the season defeating FCS opponent Furman 28-13.
It didn't take long for MSU to get rolling, as R.J. Shelton took a reverse sweep 32 yards on the first play from scrimmage. L.J.