Follow along with The State News football writer Stephen Olschanski and sports desk editor Casey Harrison, on the live blog as No. 12 MSU travels out to South Bend, Ind.
MSU heads to South Bend, Ind. Saturday night for the 78th meeting, and the 50th anniversary of the "Game of the Century", between the Spartans and the Irish.
In this Friday edition of The State News podcast, Stephen and Casey discuss the 50th anniversary of 'the game of the century' — between No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 MSU back in 1966.
Sports editor Casey Harrison fills in for Nate Bott and joins football beat writer Stephen Olschanski in breaking down the upcoming MSU football game vs. Notre Dame. Harrison and Olschanski go in-depth and explain what it will take to win against the No. 18 Fighting Irish.
Fifty years ago during the cold third week of November 1966, former MSU football star Clinton Jones walked by publications, grabbed any clips previewing the matchup between No. 2 MSU football and No.1 Notre Dame and looked for his name.
This Saturday night at 7:30, the No. 12 MSU football team will take on the No.18 Notre Dame Fighting Irish in South Bend, Ind. for the 78th time. MSU head coach Mark Dantonio and Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly have both their teams prepared for battle, ready to carry on tone of the oldest rivalries in NCAA history.
Of the caveats needed to create a rivalry, usually chief among them is a fanatical dislike which lingers on full-fledged hate.
MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio and the rest of his staff kept busy this past week with practice, recruitment, and developing a game plan for combating a high powered Notre Dame offense, led by sophomore quarterback Deshone Kizer.
State News sports editor Casey Harrison and football writer Stephen Olschanski discuss Oklahoma State's shocking upset loss to Central Michigan, the NFL hypocrisy with Cam Newton and the return of MSU football's Ed Davis.
After racking up 292 total yards and accounting for six touchdowns on the road against Texas, Notre Dame quarterback Deshone Kizer cemented himself as one of the Fighting Irish's heaviest weapons.
After a year long process of surgery, rehabilitation, graduation and a drawn out paper filing process, Ed Davis will play a sixth year for the MSU football team.
After missing the 2015 football season with a torn ACL, MSU linebacker Ed Davis has been granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA. The news broke in a tweet by head football coach Mark Dantonio shortly before 11:30 a.m.
Sixth-year senior Kevin Williams is a battler. The Nebraska transfer lost both his 2011 and 2013 seasons to knee injuries and fought through a groin injury in 2015. Injuries have not kept him down, and now he plans on becoming an integral part of MSU’s defensive line rotation.
MSU football will hold a walk-on tryout meeting on Monday, Sept. 12 at 4 p.m. in the Pentecost Team Meeting Room inside the Skandalaris Football Center.
University of Buffalo, Memphis University, Oregon State University, Stanford University and MSU all have one thing in common: their bye falls in week 2 of the college football season.
MSU head football coach Mark Dantonio held his weekly press conference Tuesday, highlighting his team’s win over Furman University last Friday night and fielded questions about how he plans to prepare the team during its unusually early bye week.
MSU will enter its bye week ranked No. 8 in the nation following the release of the USA Today Coaches Poll Tuesday afternoon. After starting the year ranked No. 11 in the coaches poll, MSU's harder-than-expected victory over Furman didn't cost them any slippage in large due to two top 10 teams falling in week one.
Walking into the media wing of Spartan Stadium following his team’s grinding 28-13 win over Furman University, Mark Dantonio neither smiled nor scowled.
Josiah Price, normally kept from the mouth of the public address announcer recorded two penalties — one a fifteen yard personal foul, the other a hold.
Bouncing to the outside and headed toward the right sideline looking to cut into open field, Furman’s Richard Hayes III couldn’t see junior nose tackle Malik McDowell bounding after him. Before he could look up field, he was ripped off the ground by McDowell and slammed to the turf, his body caught in a wrangled mess.