Utah State turned out to be awesome, both in winning 10 regular-season games and thrashing North Texas in the New Mexico Bowl. In retrospect, this was a perfectly fine home win for MSU in Week 1. I mean that precisely and am not rounding up or down. The Spartan D did that in College Park, making a boom-or-bust Maryland offense look terrible on its home field. Part of Michigan State’s ugliness, to be fair, is that the defense is so good it reduces other teams to producing hugely ugly games. His comment made sense, but on the other hand, it’s not as if Michigan State was ever going to score more points in this game. Arizona State 16, Michigan State 13Īfter this game, Herm Edwards went on a lengthy monologue to media about the dangers of scoring too quickly at the end of a game. In the end, Michigan exploded for a whole 21 points, which more than did the job against an inept offense. This game carried several signs of an impending Sparty upset, including more special-teams shenanigans and horrible weather. The Spartans have historically owned their in-state rivals, at least considering their respective recruiting weight classes. Sometimes, the combination of final score and opponent speaks for itself. There were also various missed field goals and special teams incompetencies floating about. Also, Ohio State had a 4-yard punt, and Michigan State had a 26-yard punt.
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The worst was that Michigan State took an intentional safety to salvage field position at one point, but then hit the ensuing free kick out of bounds to ruin the field-position edge it had briefly created. Ohio State 26, Michigan State 6Ī game so ugly that it required its own list of the 13 ugliest things. The game finally ended when QB Brian Lewerke almost made a play on fourth down, but the receiver couldn’t hold it. The Spartans had another comeback chance after that, sparked when an Oregon punt bounced off one MSU player and somehow into the arms of another. Michigan State missed two late (albeit long) field goal attempts, one of which never had a chance because the holder couldn’t get the snap down. Oregon 7, Michigan State 6 (Redbox Bowl)Īn utterly gross display. In honor (or dishonor) of this MSU season, these are all 13 Spartans games ranked by ugliness, starting with the most disgusting games at the top. The 7-6 final against a decent Oregon team concluded one of the Michigan Statiest seasons ever. The latest installment of this roughly decade-long trend came New Year’s Eve at the Redbox Bowl, where the Spartans’ elite defense gave up exactly 7 points and still lost. No team more reliably turns in impressive upset bids against good opponents and plays despicably ugly games than Mark Dantonio’s MSU. The only certainty about Michigan State is that it’s Michigan State, a singular property within the vast college football landscape.
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