Sun Devils radio analyst Jeff Van Raaphorst — who started at QB for Arizona State from 1984-86 and beat Jim Harbaugh and Michigan in the 1987 Rose Bowl — broke down what he saw from both the Spartans and Ducks this season and termed the matchup “a Big Ten/Pac-12 delineation” between the two teams.
Source: Detroit Free Press
Michigan State is an early underdog by a slim margin to close the 2018 season. The Spartans are 1.5-point underdogs for their Redbox Bowl matchup against Oregon on Dec. 31 in Santa Clara, Calif., according to vegasinsider.com as of 6:30 p.m. Sunday. They are 4-8 against the spread this season.
Source: MLive.com
Mark Dantonio held a conference call with the media Sunday evening after Michigan State accepted an invitation to play in the Redbox Bowl against Oregon on Monday, Dec. 31 at 12 p.m. PT/3 p.m. ET in Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The game will be nationally televised on FOX
“It will be exciting for our guys,” Dantonio said of the Redbox Bowl on a Sunday teleconference with reporters. “A lot of our players have never been out there and, from my experience, San Francisco is an amazing town and they have a lot to offer and a lot of things to see for our football team.”
Source: MLive.com