West Lafayette, Ind. - The MSU football team failed to become bowl eligible for the second straight week Saturday as it fumbled the ball five times in a 24-14 loss to Purdue at Ross Ade Stadium.Redshirt freshman quarterback Damon Dowdell started the game because sophomore quarterback Jeff Smoker sprained his left shoulder last week against Indiana.
Sophomore cornerback Tyrell Dortch had a lot of time to think as he lay in a Madison, Wis. ,hospital bed for more than two weeks.
Take away the canyons, anvils and the cartoon attributes, and sophomore wide receiver Charles Rogers and Purdue safety Stuart Schweigert could pass for Wile E.
It isn’t officially rivalry week until Grambling and Southern duel it out in the Battle of the Bands, but many big-time rivalries are this week, including Florida vs.
They are definitely not blockbuster movies by any means. But regardless, MSU will take plenty of time this week analyzing film to try and correct the mistakes made in Saturday’s 37-28 loss to Indiana.
Hazelwood East High (St. Louis) fullback David Richard planned on continuing his football career at Tennessee.But the 6-foot-2, 225-pounder axed those plans Friday when he decided to commit to MSU football head coach Bobby Williams and make East Lansing his new football home next season.“The reason for the change was because I didn’t know a lot about (Tennessee),” Richard said.
Indiana head football coach Cam Cameron was exhausted just watching his team rush for 489 yards - a season worst for MSU’s defense.“You know what, I’d rather sit down,” Cameron said at his postgame press conference, “I’m worn out, I’m worn out.”Cameron’s weariness came watching quarterback Antwaan Randle El as he tirelessly scrambled up and down the field for 149 yards and one touchdown rushing and set up two other major ground performances.Running back Levron Williams flew 251 yards for three touchdowns and fullback Jeremi Johnson tallied 96 yards and a score of his own.
Indiana had more to play for Saturday than just its third conference win of the season. After embarrassing MSU 37-28 at home, the Hoosiers (3-6, 3-3 Big Ten) waited on the field until they received a dingy, yet coveted award that has been in the Spartans’ grasp since 1994.
No. 22 MSU sure does keep things interesting.Saturday was no exception in a 37-28 loss to Indiana.
Regardless of the outcome in MSU’s football game against Indiana on Saturday, one player with the last name Rasmussen won’t be happy.That’s because sophomore defensive tackle Kyle Rasmussen’s older brother Kemp is the Hoosiers’ starting defensive end.This game will be the only time the brothers will get a chance to stand on opposite sidelines.“This is the last time we’re going to get to play each other so it’s kind of for bragging rights - forever,” Kyle said.That’s why they’ve been looking forward to it for so long, Kemp told The Associated Press.“I’ve had this game circled on my calendar since last year,” Kemp said.
The last time Indiana quarterback Antwaan Randle El visited East Lansing, he lost consciousness and forgot who and where he was.
Nothing can really compare to last weekend’s sporting events, especially MSU’s 26-24 upset over Michigan and ex-Detroit Tiger Luis Gonzalez’s game-winning hit in game seven of the World Series. But with plenty of college football left on the schedule and the Spartans rolling, there should still be plenty of excitement.
MSU football head coach Bobby Williams recorded two victories over Michigan this weekend. Even before the Spartans registered their 26-24 win Saturday, Williams received a verbal commitment from 6-foot-7 Flint Northern High School senior wide receiver Matt Trannon Friday afternoon, defeating the Wolverines on the recruiting front.“It just felt right,” Trannon said of choosing MSU.
At least 10 MSU players have been sidelined at one time or another this season, resulting in a frustrated coaching staff scrambling for healthy contributors.
After getting sacked for the 12th time against Michigan Saturday, with less than two minutes left, sophomore quarterback Jeff Smoker had to think fast.
The No. 22 MSU football team was one second away from watching No. 12 Michigan celebrate after Saturday’s 26-24 thriller. Even though MSU (5-2 overall, 3-2 Big Ten) lost in similar fashion at Northwestern on Sept.
The MSU Spartans found some of the New York Yankees ninth-inning magic on Saturday night. When everything seemed over and done for the Spartans (5-2, 3-2 Big Ten) sophomore quarterback Jeff Smoker threw an off-balance pass to junior tailback T.J.
It’s on. And for the MSU football team, it has been on all week as it prepared to battle intrastate rival No.
When Michigan visited East Lansing in 1999 and lost 34-31, quarterback John Navarre was in street clothes, cheering for his teammates on the sidelines.
Flint Northern football and basketball standout Matt Trannon will decided his fate as a college wide receiver/forward today at 2:30 p.m., Trannon’s Uncle Vincent Kirkland told The State News on Thursday.