Despite having a 3-9 overall record and a 1-8 mark in the Big Ten, the MSU football team received a few nods to the Big Ten All-Defensive Team.
After a largely forgettable year for MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio blatantly answered a question about when offseason plans will begin.
After a disappointing season for the MSU football team, it will look to the off-season after failing to reach the six-win threshold needed to become bowl eligible. Fortunately, the Spartans will welcome good news as freshman wide receiver Donnie Corley was named to the Big Ten Network All-Big Ten Freshman team, according to a press release.
Only two things have ever been consistent for MSU football in 2016. A lead then a loss. No matter what it tried, which personnel subbed in, which packages it dumbed down, its points would never be enough.
Sports editor Casey Harrison and football writer Stephen Olschanski hit podcast No. 25 with a slate of football talk.
The Lansing State Journal reported Monday evening that fifth-year senior safety Demetrious Cox was arrested Nov. 24 at 3 a.m. and cited with for misdemeanor assault.
Junior quarterback Damion Terry’s harrowing effort was cut short. Trying to deliver MSU one last bright spot in a dismal season, the junior quarterback's 7-for-12, 101-yard performance was derailed by a concussion.
A trip to Happy Valley on Saturday, resulting in a 45-12 statement victory for Big Ten East champions Penn State, proved MSU ran out of gas.
Early in the fourth quarter of MSU football’s 17-16 senior day loss to No. 2 Ohio State, MSU head coach Mark Dantonio reached into his bag of tricks and pulled out a fake punt –– one where junior linebacker Chris Frey took the direct snap and ran 25 yards down the sideline for a first down.
In a game with monumental opportunity for Penn State, the MSU football team, sitting at 3-8 on the season, came into Happy Valley in a battle for the Land-Grant Trophy.
Having answered all the football questions, fifth-year senior Tyler O’Connor was asked to give his opinion about the Land Grant Trophy. He laughed a little at the question, looked up and said, “The look of it?” “It’s not the prettiest trophy I would say,” O’Connor said chuckling.
MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio addressed the media during his weekly Tuesday press conference fielding the usual preview questions for MSU’s matchup with No. 7 Penn State.
State News sports editor Casey Harrison and football writer Stephen Olschanski discuss MSU going for two late in the game against Ohio State, Stephen rants about the "rivalry" between MSU and Penn State and the guys talk about the clock error against FGCU.
Deep in the heart of Columbus with the wind sweeping down on Ohio Stadium, MSU kicker Michael Geiger stepped to the ball, launched it end over end off his and foot and sent it straight.
For the greater part of the 2016 MSU football campaign, two things were certain. Uncertainty and criticism. No position, no personnel, no coach, no decision seemed to get by unscathed.
Defying all odds, the MSU Spartans (3-8, 1-7 Big Ten) welcomed No. 2 Ohio State (10-1, 7-1 Big Ten) to East Lansing and barely fell to the heavily-favored Buckeyes 17-16.
Winds were howling in East Lansing as the No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes (9-1, 6-1 Big Ten) entered Spartan Stadium in a matchup with MSU (3-7, 1-6 Big Ten) that hasn’t seen the home team win since 2007.
Welcome to The State News live blog for MSU football's matchup with No. 2 Ohio State. Follow along with football writers Stephen Olschanski and Nathaniel Bott by sending them your tweets, comments, questions and thoughts about today's game.
State News sports editor Casey Harrison and football writer Stephen Olschanski discuss the impending Ohio State beatdown, the College Football Playoff and MSU basketball Kentucky.
Saturday afternoon will mark the final time that the 2016 senior class will step onto the field at Spartan Stadium. The game will have an extra meaning to those guys, as well as MSU head coach Mark Dantonio, whose 7-2 record on senior day has sent his seniors out with a victory.