Homecoming at Michigan State will hopefully feature some beautiful fall colors and weather. Unfortunately, it will also feature two struggling football teams. The Spartans and Illinois enter Saturday’s matchup (3:30 PM ET, FS1) with identical 2-3 records, including 0-2 in the Big Ten.
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Michigan State returns to East Lansing to host Illinois on Homecoming Saturday, Oct. 10 in Spartan Stadium at 3:30 p.m. The game will be televised on FS1 and streamed on FOX One with Jack Kizer (play-by-play) and Mark Helfrich (analyst) on the call.
Michigan State volleyball redshirt sophomore setter Malayah Long has been named the Big Ten Setter of the Week, as announced by the conference Monday. The Lincoln, Nebraska native earns her first Setter of the Week award from the conference with Monday’s announcement and third weekly conference award overall after being named Freshman of the Week twice last season.
For the first time since 2018, Michigan State volleyball earned a spot in the American Volleyball Coaches (AVCA) Top 25 Coaches Poll, coming in at No. 22 in the Week 6 poll released Monday. Monday’s ranking marks MSU’s first time in the national poll in eight seasons, where the Spartans earned the No. 22 spot in the preseason poll released on Aug. 8, 2018.
Jeremy Fears Jr. has been named the Big Ten Conference Preseason Player of the Year in a vote of the league’s media, announced on Monday afternoon. Last month, Fears was named the preseason National Player of the Year by Blue Ribbon College Basketball for the upcoming season.
Michigan State volleyball completed a 2-0 weekend in Los Angeles with a five-set victory (18-25, 25-14, 24-26, 25-18, 15-11) over USC Sunday afternoon inside the Galen Center. MSU moves to 13-1 with the win and 3-1 in the B1G with the win
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No. 8 Michigan State suffered its first Big Ten loss of the season, 3-0, to UCLA in Los Angeles on Saturday night. With the loss, the Spartans fall to 7-2-1 overall and 3-1-0 in Big Ten play. UCLA improves to 5-1-4 overall and 2-1-2 in league play. Michigan State was shutout for just the second time this season.
Nothing Michigan State football did on offense worked. Nothing its defense did could slow down Wisconsin quarterback Colton Joseph. And the only jumping around on the Spartans’ sideline during their 31-3 blowout loss to the Badgers came from frustrated coaches in the midst of a lackluster and listless performance across the board.
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Michigan State hockey got its 2026-27 season underway on Friday night with a 5-2 victory over No. 12-ranked Boston College inside Ron Mason Rink at Munn Ice Arena.
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Jesse McCulloch scored 20 points and redshirt junior guard Jeremy Fears Jr. had a double-double with 10 points and 13 assists as Michigan State’s men’s basketball team opened the 2026-27 exhibition season with an 83-54 win over the University of the Incarnate Word in the Izzone Campout Game on Friday night at the Breslin Center.
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Michigan State’s men’s basketball team plays the first of three exhibition games on Friday, Oct. 2, hosting the University of the Incarnate Word at the Breslin Center for the Izzone Campout Game (7 p.m.). The game will tip off at 7 p.m. and will air live on B1G+, with Charlie Schmidgall, Matt Guziewicz and Jessica Kemnitz calling all of the action.
Spartans have landed a commitment from 2027 four-star center Jaydn Jenkins, as reported by Deshawn London on social media moments ago. Jenkins is 6-foot-10, 220lb out of Warminster (PA) Archbishop Wood, in the Philadelphia area. His wingspan measures in at a jarring 7-foot-4. Jenkins is ranked the No. 64 overall prospect and No. 8 center in the class by 247Sports.
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Michigan State heads to Madison to face Wisconsin on Saturday, Oct. 3 at 12:30 p.m. ET/11:30 a.m. CT in Camp Randall Stadium. The game will be televised on the Big Ten Network and streamed on FOX One with Jason Horowitz (play-by-play), Jake Butt (analyst) and Brooke Fletcher (sidelines) on the call.
Cam Edwards is going to miss the remainder of the season. Now, the Spartans are going to be forced to find a new answer at running back for the remainder of the season. Luckily for the Spartans, they made more than enough preparations in the transfer portal to absorb this loss. Aside from Edwards, the Spartans added Iowa transfer Jaziun Patterson and Western Kentucky transfer Marvis Parrish into the fold, while also retaining Brandon Tullis on the roster.
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The preseason USA Hockey Men’s College Hockey Poll was released on Monday, with the Spartans landing at No. 3 nationally. Michigan State hockey was only listed behind Denver (No. 1) and rival Michigan (No. 2) in the preseason poll.
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Jack Hextall is joining a stacked Michigan State roster that has championship aspirations. With the Spartans bringing in a lot of high-end talent, where does Hextall fit into the mix, and how will he bring value to the roster? Hextall was drafted 30th overall by the Calgary Flames this past June, and although he’s a first-round pick, there will be a lot of players ahead of him in the depth chart, especially if he plays down the middle.
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