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.
State News football beat writer Nathaniel Bott (Twitter: @Nathaniel_Bott) breaks down what to expect from MSU-Ohio State, gives an injury report and offers his prediction for the contest. The Spartans play host on senior day to the No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes, who since their lone blemish on the road to No. 8 Penn State have outscored their next three opponents 148-26, winning all three contests.
MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio took his usual spot at the podium in Spartan Stadium on Tuesday to preview Saturday’s game against the No. 2 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes.
On a lowly day in 1998 MSU football had nothing but hope to play as it reached Ohio Stadium in Columbus.
The battle of this year’s bums of the Big Ten turned out to be nothing more than a cask of pent up frustration finally splintering then exploding all over Spartan Stadium on Saturday as MSU captured its first win in nearly seven weeks. In the time between wins, the FBI sifted through a trove of newly found Clinton emails and came up empty handed, the Cubs won the World Series, the United States elected Donald Trump as President-elect, Dos-a-Cero came to an end and Ohio State fell from the top five only to wind up at No. 2 by Sunday.
The MSU football team (3-7, 1-6 Big Ten) was able to end their seven game losing streak in emphatic fashion this past Saturday –– a 49-0 beat down of lowly Rutgers. The victory had the Spartans in good spirits, as head coach Mark Dantonio said it seemed like “we'd won the championship,” the way the locker room celebrated the victory.
For seven weeks the only consistency for MSU football was that no matter the scheme, the personnel nor the play calls, nothing would avoid another week of losing.
The Spartans were able to sing their fight song with the student section for the first time since Sept. 2
Spartan Stadium played host to a match-up that pitted the only two teams in the Big Ten without a conference win yet against each other. One came out hungry for that victory as MSU football (3-7, 1-6 Big Ten) cleaned their plate in an emphatic 49-0 beatdown of Rutgers (2-8, 0-7 Big Ten).