That is true but as you saw I think that was an anomaly, looking at there bowl play. If you consistently recruit 3-4 in leaque you are generally going to finish there
MSU's records since 2010
11-2
11-3
7-6
13-1
11-2
12-2
Over that time they have had bowl wins over Georgia, TCU, Stanford, and Baylor.
I think that also shows how weak that Big Ten has been...Michigan was kind of down...PSU has been down...OSU is loaded...NU has been down (Ironically beating MSU a lot)