Michigan State Or Rutgers Will Finally Win A Big Ten Game
The Scarlet Knights and Spartans will meet in East Lansing on Saturday in a matchup between the only two winless teams in Big Ten play.
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The Scarlet Knights and Spartans will meet in East Lansing on Saturday in a matchup between the only two winless teams in Big Ten play.
The fall of Michigan State could end up being the most dramatic in Big Ten football since the Gerald Ford-led Michigan Wolverines went from first to worst 82 years ago.
At this point, the Spartans are still trying to salvage something from these last few games.
In each meeting, Dantonio had his players complete a self-survey in which they listed the things that have been bothering them.
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The win broke a two-game losing streak for the Illini. It also extended the Spartans' misery. Michigan State has lost seven in a row.
Here's one man's early predictions for March Madness, which is four months and approximately 10,500 games away.
Looking at the schedule back in August, Michigan State-Illinois was not a game many people would have guessed would pit a pair of 2-6 teams against each other.
His team in a freefall, Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio acknowledged the Spartans are scuffling along at quarterback.
ESPN released its college basketball preview today, featuring power rankings for the top 25 teams along with the best-case and worst-case scenario for each squad.
Indiana is 11th followed by Michigan State, Louisville, Gonzaga, Purdue, UCLA, Saint Mary's, Connecticut, Syracuse and West Virginia.
Michigan State quarterback Brian Lewerke is expected to miss the rest of the season with a broken leg.
As Jabrill Peppers exclaimed, "Oh man, it's been a long time coming!"
Michigan avenged last year's loss to Michigan State, in which the Spartans scored the winning touchdown on the final play when the Wolverines botched a punt.
Jim Harbaugh has Michigan marching toward a special season, winning its first seven games and climbing to No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll for the first time in a decade.
