With the Spartans preparing to take the field, team captains were announced within the past week: sophomore quarterback Aidan Chiles, redshirt junior running back Nate Carter, sixth year offensive lineman Tanner Miller, redshirt senior linebacker Jordan Turner and sixth year defensive lineman Maverick Hansen.
Michigan State University’s football team is fine-tuning its game plan and the players are sharpening their skills as they lace up for the last scrimmage of fall camp on Saturday, which will carve out roles for the season ahead.
As Michigan State University's football team gears up for its next scrimmage, Coach Jonathan Smith’s satisfaction with Saturday’s performance reveals a promising yet evolving squad.
Head coach Jonathan Smith has the players participate in meetings weekly to get to know each other, MSU sixth-year kicker Jonathan Kim said after practice Thursday.
Monday’s practice was the Spartans' first time in full pads with light tackling.
Four days into MSU football’s preseason fall camp, new players are starting to adjust to playing as a Spartan and figuring out how to work well with each other. One of those players is predicted starting quarterback Aidan Chiles.
Smith said this upcoming season will be a fresh start for him and the team and that everyone involved will have to work hard to be successful.
Michigan State University Athletics Department announced Thursday morning the renewal of the MSU-Notre Dame Football rivalry with a home-and-home series in 2026 and 2027. The two schools last met in a home-and-home series in 2016 and 2017, with both schools winning on the road.
The 2025 three-star running back from East Lansing High School grew up with MSU in his backyard. On May 14, Clarizio fulfilled his goal of playing for the team he has supported since childhood, committing to the Spartans' revamped football program under head coach Jonathan Smith.
It took all seven rounds, but a Michigan State football player's name was called at the 2024 NFL Draft. Nick Samac – a five-year center for MSU – was selected at No. 228 overall by the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday.
The Louisiana native was part of MSU’s 2021 recruiting class as a two-sport athlete. He racked up 848 receiving yards and eight touchdowns over two seasons with MSU football and he also spent a portion of the 2021-2022 season with the Michigan State basketball team after the football season ended, being the only Spartan to score against Michigan in both football and basketball.
In Detroit on Thursday night, the reaction to the hometown Lions trading up five spots to take Alabama cornerback Terrion Arnold at No. 24 overall in the 2024 NFL Draft was nothing short of euphoric. For the 30 or so Lions fans standing at the corner of Woodward Avenue and State Street, it warranted a chanting of Holmes’ name.
The Bears got their guy and the Caleb Williams era in Chicago has begun.
Motown has reclaimed its position in the national eye. And, with the 2024 NFL Draft set to begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday at One Campus Martius in downtown Detroit, the city is on the clock once again.
On April 20, students and fans packed Spartan Stadium to witness the 2024 MSU football Spring Showcase, marking head coach Jonathan Smith's first at Michigan State. Aside from the veterans, the newly transferred and incoming freshmen played – such as quarterback Aidan Chiles, tight end Jack Velling and Nick Marsh, a top-10 wide receiver in the nation.
On April 20, students and fans will get to see the newly hired football coach Jonathan Smith and his Spartans in the annual Spring Showcase at Spartan Stadium. Smith, who recently transferred from coaching at Oregon State, will officially be part of this year's Spring Showcase, which marks the 15th and final spring practice during the offseason.
Former Michigan State head football coach Mark Dantonio will kick off Michigan State University’s 2024 graduation season as a guest speaker, the school announced Thursday.
The new Michigan State men’s head football coach, Jonathan Smith, spoke at a football press conference on Thursday, Jan. 18, where he talked about the upcoming season, player additions to the team and additions to the coaching staff.
Mark Dantonio, the all-time winningest coach in Michigan State football history, will be inducted into the National Football Foundation’s College Football Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2024, the foundation announced Monday.
After coaching six seasons from 2018-2023 at the University of Minnesota, Joe Rossi has been hired by head coach Jonathan Smith as the new Secchia Family Defensive Coordinator and linebackers coach.