The State News recently caught up with Spartans football legend Carl Banks to discuss where MSU football has been and where it is going. Banks played as a linebacker at MSU from 1980-83 and became the first non-kicker at MSU to receive first team All-Big Ten honors three consecutive seasons.
The Heisman Trophy is awarded each season to college football’s most outstanding player. Seven candidates currently lead the nation, but the trophy isn’t won four weeks into the season.
A winless MSU team heads to Wisconsin on Saturday to take on the undefeated Badgers as it opens Big Ten play.
At this point in the season, records aren’t going to say it all. The Spartans come out of the nonconference schedule 4-0, but face it, the competition hasn’t been exactly stiff. Their toughest opponent was Pittsburgh, and they’ve been here before, only to collapse for the remainder of the season. So here’s how the Spartans look heading into their Big Ten conference schedule.
Prognosticators predict the outcomes of the weekend’s upcoming Big Ten football showdowns.
If you show, you blow. A new policy at University of Wisconsin, Madison for football games this fall requires students who have been removed from prior games for drunken behavior to submit to a Breathalyzer test for future admittance.
Here’s the breakdown for the upcoming Big Ten battle between the Spartans and the Wisconsin Badgers.
Hang on folks, I’m pulling the emergency break. It’s now safe for everyone to jump off the Detroit Lions bandwagon — don’t crowd, one at a time will do.
Senior offensive lineman Mike Gyetvai had never played guard until last week but that didn’t stop him from doing what head coach Mark Dantonio called “a tremendous job” against Notre Dame.
The Spartans won an emotional 31-14 victory over Notre Dame on Saturday, vindicating last year’s heartbreaking loss and sending the Fighting Irish to their first 0-4 start in school history. Almost one year ago, MSU football took a shot to the heart when Notre Dame came back from a 16-point fourth quarter deficit to win in Spartan Stadium on a cold, wet, windy night.
Notre Dame football head coach Charlie Weis broke a sacred promise to his football team and fans by losing to MSU 31-14 on Saturday. In the summer of 2006, Weis told the Notre Dame faithful that they would never have to worry about losing to the Spartans again.
Not a bad start, Spartans. Only you, Wisconsin, Purdue and Ohio State are undefeated in the Big Ten. You’re on top. But you’ve done this before. You started out 4-0 in 2005, 3-0 in 2006 — this isn’t news to you. You know the season isn’t won in four games. You know the season doesn’t really start until Big Ten play.
Junior quarterback Brian Hoyer fumbled the ball twice Saturday against Notre Dame — but one of those fumbles wasn’t by accident. The Spartans decided to try for the first down on fourth-and-one from the Fighting Irish 30-yard line with around three minutes left in the third quarter.
Playing at a school with a lot of history, the Spartans decided to make some of their own on Saturday when they defeated Notre Dame 31-14 – handing them their first ever 0-4 start. MSU also became the first team to ever win six consecutive games at Notre Dame Stadium.
Going into the fourth week of the college football season, these six candidates are the frontrunners.
How did you feel after last year’s football team lost to Notre Dame? The State News asked five students who attended the game.
Four weeks into the 2006 season, the MSU football team imploded. With a 16-point lead at the end of the third quarter, the Spartans thought they had it in the bag, but the rain storm grew stronger, and so did the Fighting Irish. Notre Dame scored 19 unanswered points, beating MSU 40-37. The MSU players and coaches walked off the field soaked in rain and sweat.
The breakdown: How MSU and Notre Dame match up.
Prognosticators predict the outcomes of this weekend’s college football showdowns.
The Spartans have been here before. They began the 2006 season 3-0. They began the 2005 season 4-0. They finished both of those seasons without a bowl game.