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At Notre Dame in two weeks
The Feature

All Michigan State Has To Do Is Look Normal

The easiest game on the schedule has turned into the first referendum on whether this program can behave like a normal one — and Grambling State is going to run the football forty-five times at a defense that has never played a snap together.

Ben Kessler · The Athletic
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There is no evidence yet

Madeline Kenney on the people being asked to take a stranger's word for it.
Full Transcript

‘We Haven’t Earned Interesting Yet’

Tuesday game-week presser: the option, the first start, the bar.
This Week’s One-Off

The Rehearsal

Headsets, the fourth-down chart, and a page about how to shake hands.
Wk 0
Bye
Complete
Wk 1
Grambling St.
Home opener
Wk 2
E. Michigan
Home
Wk 3
at Notre Dame
Measuring stick
Wk 4
Nebraska
Home
Wk 5
at Wisconsin
Away
Wk 6
Illinois
Home
Wk 7
Northwestern
Home
Wk 8
at UCLA
Away
Wk 9
Bye
 
Wk 10
at Michigan
Rivalry
Wk 11
Washington
Home
Wk 12
Oregon
Home
Wk 13
at Rutgers
Away
The Only Question That Matters

Can Michigan State just look normal for three hours?

Not win — winning is assumed, which is exactly the problem. The ask is smaller and more humiliating than that: play a clean, competent, adult football game against an overmatched opponent and give nobody a new clip. A first-time head coach who has never played the sport is calling both sides. A redshirt freshman is making his first start. A brand-new 4-2-5 gets an option offense as its opening exam. This is the archive of the week before any of it was answered.