Three losses in the first seven games. An offense that has vastly underachieved expectations and has been racked by injuries. Hopes of winning a Big Ten title gone. That’s the position Michigan State (4-3, 2-2 Big Ten) is in one game past the midpoint of the season. Now it’s a matter of how the Spartans respond.
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No. 13 Michigan State will conclude its regular-season home schedule on Tuesday, Oct. 23 against No. 18 Michigan in the annual Battle for the Big Bear Trophy at 8 p.m. at DeMartin Sdtadium. The game will be televised on the Big Ten Network with Mike Monaco and Jamie Watson on the call.
Three Michigan State football players who helped and hurt their stock in the Spartans’ 21-7 loss to Michigan on Saturday.
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Monday afternoon, Ben Phlegar, the associate director of athletic communications at Michigan State, issued a statement regarding the pre-game skirmish that occurred between players from the two teams. In the statement, Michigan State says the football team followed the timeline it provided to Michigan’s football staff and that UM players and staffers refused to leave the field.
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To kickoff the beginning of Big Ten Women’s Basketball Media Week, the conference released the Preseason Coaches and Media Polls, in addition to the preseason All-Big Ten teams on Monday. Michigan State redshirt-junior guard Shay Colley was earned Preseason All-Big Ten honors by the coaches.
Chalk up another early kickoff for the Spartans. Michigan State’s game at Maryland on Nov. 3 is scheduled for noon and will be broadcast on ESPN2, it was announced Monday afternoon.
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Michigan State field hockey senior Madison O’Neill has been selected as an alternate field player for this year’s Victory Sports Tours/National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Division I Senior Game.
Michigan State’s men’s basketball team is ranked No. 10 in the country in the Associated Press Preseason poll, released on Monday afternoon.
Defensively, the Spartan defense played pretty damn well, and kept MSU in it much longer than they should have been. So we will hit a couple plays here, and then move on to the next week.
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Since elevating Matt Allen to the starting center job, the position has been a rare source of stability for Michigan State’ offensive line. After the redshirt sophomore limped off the field during the second half of last Saturday’s loss to Michigan, it’s unclear whether the Spartans will have the luxury of Allen’s consistency this weekend against Purdue.“I really don’t want to get into the injury parts of that, and it’s sort of an unknown right now anyway,” MSU head coach Mark Dantonio said.
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“If he does have a bad moment, I’ve always believed that he could respond. I have faith in our other quarterbacks too, but I’m always going to give our guy a chance that he’s put himself in a situation where he’s proven himself and I think that he’s done that for us. That’s the reason we stayed with him.”
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That is the question Michigan State remains left with after losing to Michigan. What if those tipped passes on defense had been interceptions instead of drive-propelling completions? What if Andrew Dowell didn’t bite on Shea Patterson’s option fake? What if his brother, David, read the Michigan quarterback’s decision to keep it a fraction of a second sooner?
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Michigan State landed another future running back on Sunday when Coatsville (Pa.) Area product Aaron Young announced he was committing to the Spartans. Young, 5-foot-9 and 190 pounds, is the top-ranked running back in the state of Pennsylvania and had offers from the likes of Penn State, Nebraska, Arkansas, Northwestern, Stanford and Ole Miss.
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A day after losing at home to Michigan, Mark Dantonio didn’t feel any better about what happened during the game or any differently about what happened before it.
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For the third straight game, Michigan State is an underdog. At least for now, and barely. Purdue is an early one-point favorite against Michigan State, according to vegasinsider.com. The Spartans opened as 1.5-point favorites late Sunday afternoon, but the line quickly shifted in favor of the Boilermakers.
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Looking back at what happened in Michigan State’s 21-7 loss to Michigan and looking ahead to next Saturday’s home game with Purdue.
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Michigan was emphatic in every way on Saturday in East Lansing. The Wolverines left no doubt about their intentions – and a 21-7 dominating victory over Michigan State might have even suggested that they consider Michigan State a rival after all.
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After unimaginable injury luck, what can MSU even do at this point? No, seriously – what can you even do now? This is just getting flat-out depressing, and I don’t know if anyone has an answer. Hopefully if there is someone that knows what to do, they’re on the MSU sidelines. Of course, I’m talking about the injuries.
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Wearing helmets and gray sweatsuits, they started to pour through the Spartan Stadium tunnel at 10 a.m., lining up along the back of the north end zone. Players all linked arms to walk the length of the field, something they do before every home game, before gates open.
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