** 2023 Opponent Preview : Michigan State (Game 9) **

[Hayseed]

Well that was fun talking about things that'll never happen.

[nic]

This was weird...

 

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state-university/2023/10/21/michigan-state-deeply-sorry-after-hitler-image-appears-on-video-boards-before-game/71277801007/

 

[BigRedBuster]

 

[Mavric]

 

[Gage County]

On 10/22/2023 at 12:53 AM, nic said:

This was weird...

 

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state-university/2023/10/21/michigan-state-deeply-sorry-after-hitler-image-appears-on-video-boards-before-game/71277801007/

What crap reporting by the News. Here's a better account:

https://apnews.com/article/michigan-state-hitler-23b8e62c44cf42c3caad30c908692632

 

[nic]

24 minutes ago, Gage County said:

What crap reporting by the News. Here's a better account:

https://apnews.com/article/michigan-state-hitler-23b8e62c44cf42c3caad30c908692632

 

So some employee did that on purpose. I think most people thought it was an accident.

[Gage County]

1 hour ago, nic said:

So some employee did that on purpose. I think most people thought it was an accident.

Looks that way.

Edited October 24, 2023 by Gage County

[Undone]

Michigan State might be just slightly better than Purdue (who might be the worst team in the B1G), but they're still a pretty terrible team. Like Purdue they're now 2-6 after today.

 

They played one great non-conference team (Washington) and lost that one, obviously.

 

But then their only two wins were against Central Michigan & Richmond. They're terrible, and they don't have a conference win yet.

[suh_fan93]

Nebraska playing a B1G team nonetheless with only 2 wins on the season for the 2nd week in a row.  Talk about a red carpet. 

 

Never would have thought we would see the league in this much disarray and frankly this bad after Mich, OSU and Penn St.  Weirdest year since we've been in the league imo.

 

With all the new teams coming into the league next season it could get even stranger. 

 

It definitely will be tougher.

 

 

[nic]

I predict bowl eligibility...MSU is horrible.

[El Straino]

9 minutes ago, suh_fan93 said:

Nebraska playing a B1G team nonetheless with only 2 wins on the season for the 2nd week in a row.  Talk about a red carpet. 

 

Never would have thought we would see the league in this much disarray after Mich, OSU and Penn St.  Weirdest year since we've been in the league imo.

 

With all the new teams coming into the league next season it could get even stranger. 

 

It definitely will be tougher.

 

 

There is definitely a sharp drop-off after the big 3. One could argue 2012 was a bit bit more weird, but for different reasons with Ohio St. and Penn St. being ineligible. Hey, remember when we were in a championship game, favored by 12? Yeeesh.

 

Next year could be an absolute free-for-all circus.

[Mavric]

 

[ZRod]

2 hours ago, Mavric said:

 

And yet 35.5 still seems too high 

[BigRedBuster]

48 minutes ago, ZRod said:

And yet 35.5 still seems too high 

We literally just won a game where the total was 45 and we had 31. 
 

Do you think MSU is that much better than Purdue?

[runningblind]

38 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

We literally just won a game where the total was 45 and we had 31. 
 

Do you think MSU is that much better than Purdue?

The last game was out of the norm scoring wise. I'm with him in where the over under should be.  You can't count on things like blocked kicks returned for TDs or the opponent returning a fumble for a TD. That's your 14 points right there going from under to over.