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Alabama intimidates with balanced offense
Alabama will bring a balanced offense and a large intimidation factor to the Capital One Bowl matchup with the No. 7 MSU football team.
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Workouts during suspension paid off for receivers Dell and Cunningham
After being suspended for last season’s bowl game, wide receivers Mark Dell and B.J. Cunningham are excited for this year’s Capital One Bowl matchup with No. 15 Alabama. The senior and junior worked hard in the winter with junior quarterback Kirk Cousins, which had a large impact on the success of this year’s 11-1 season.
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MSU linebacker Jones repeats as All-American
MSU senior linebacker Greg Jones was named to The Associated Press All-America first team Tuesday.
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Big Ten announces division names, logo
The Big Ten revealed a new logo and announced division names Monday. The divisions are called Legends and Leaders.
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Spartans get back to work in preparation for Capital One Bowl
It only was three weeks ago that the No. 7 MSU football team beat Penn State to clinch a share of the Big Ten championship. But for junior receiver Keith Nichol and the rest of the Spartans, those three weeks have felt like an eternity.
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Capital matchup
As expected, Mark Dantonio and his No. 7 MSU football team were denied a BCS bid in favor of fellow conference champions Ohio State and Wisconsin. And yet, when the Spartans take on No. 15 Alabama in the Capital One Bowl on Jan. 1, 2011, in Orlando, Fla., Dantonio said he believes it will be MSU’s bowl game that is the best matchup involving any Big Ten team, including the Rose and Sugar bowls.
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Dantonio prepares to face former mentor, Saban
About 11 years ago, T.J. Duckett was a confused 18-year-old freshman. Then a bruising tailback for the MSU football team, which was preparing to take on Florida in the 2000 Citrus Bowl, Duckett was with the Spartans in large part because he wanted to play for then-head coach Nick Saban.
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Breakdown: MSU vs. Alabama
When the Spartans and No. 15 Crimson Tide play in the Capital One Bowl, set for 1 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2011, in Orlando, Fla., plenty will be at stake, including conference bragging rights and the chance to ring in their new year with a victory.
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Tide hasn't lived up to expectations
A 9-3 overall record, 5-3 conference record and a berth in the Capital One Bowl versus the No. 7 ranked MSU Spartans would be considered a successful season at most programs across the country. Not at Alabama.
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Chance to help brand for Big Ten in bowls
The Big Ten will begin bowl season Dec. 28, and, as has been the case in previous seasons, will go in having to earn every ounce of respect it’s going to get.
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Spartan Nation Destination
Jamie Burns has been a Spartan his whole life, going to MSU sporting events since childhood. Burns, now a biosystems engineering freshman, went to every home football game this year and made trips to Ann Arbor University Park, Pa., and Evanston, Ill., to watch games. Now, he and his family have one final destination and one final game in one of the best seasons in MSU football history — Orlando, Fla., for the Capital One Bowl.
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MSU loses BCS bowl bid, gains trip to Capital One Bowl game
The No. 7 MSU football team will spend the holidays in Orlando, Fla., for the third time in four seasons to play against No. 15 Alabama in the Capital One Bowl, MSU announced Sunday.
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In many ways, Capital One is better than BCS
I know the system is a joke. I know it makes no sense to send an 11-1 Big Ten championship team that’s ranked No. 7 in the country to the Capital One Bowl, the same bowl it played in two years ago when it had a 9-3 record and finished behind Penn State and Ohio State in the conference.
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Spartans to face Alabama in Capital One Bowl
The No. 7 MSU football team will play the Alabama Crimson Tide in the Capital One Bowl on Jan. 1, MSU announced Sunday night.
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No matter what bowl, MSU fans will enjoy game
No matter where the No. 7 MSU football team winds up — and it’s looking like Orlando, Fla., New Orleans or Miami right now — it will enjoy the warm weather and tradition-rich environment with a highly rated opponent, likely from the SEC, staring it down.
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Gantt named Tight End of the Week
The Nassau County Sports Commission named senior Charlie Gantt the John Mackey Tight End of the Week on Wednesday.
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Spartans look to understand 'price of greatness' after championship
Three months ago, before the college football season had even started, MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio played a game of “repeat after me” with his football team. Back in August, Dantonio would say the words “We will,” and his players followed it up with, “Be champions,” before everyone said the entire phrase together.
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At long last
Four years after John L. Smith was run out of town and Mark Dantonio was brought into East Lansing as the new head coach, the No. 7 Spartans (11-1 overall, 7-1 Big Ten) have a share in the Big Ten championship for the first time since 1990.
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Spartans push for BCS bid
The No. 7 MSU football team has secured a Big Ten championship and taken care of everything within its power. Now the waiting game begins.
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Community reacts to MSU win, Big Ten title
As MSU football players dumped containers of green and white confetti on head coach Mark Dantonio at Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa., students in East Lansing and at home for Thanksgiving celebrated MSU’s first Big Ten championship since 1990.