Michigan State Football@MSU_Football·1d···

FINAL

Michigan State 56
Grambling State 7

1-0.

Final · Home Opener

MICHIGAN STATE 56
GRAMBLING STATE 7

618 total yards · 18 TFL · 1 penalty

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kev@okemos_kev·1d···

i aged nine years in the first quarter and then took a nap in the third. balanced day

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Nadia@sparty_soberish·1d···

the whole scary part of that game was four minutes long and i will be telling my grandchildren about it

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Stephen Brooks@StephenBrooks247·1d···

Grambling State did not record a first down after its opening possession.

Five first downs total. Four of them came on that drive. 1-of-10 on third down. Seven punts.

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Beth Kowalczyk@BethKowalczyk·1d···

Michigan State: 618 yards, 9.4 per play, 31 first downs, 7-of-10 on third down, 0 turnovers, 0 sacks allowed, 1 penalty.

The penalty was a hold.

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Tre@tre_from_holt·1d···

ONE PENALTY. one. i have watched michigan state football my entire life and i did not know that was legal

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dad of three, fan of one@spartandad_1978·1d···

my son asked me at 7-7 if we were going to lose and i said no and then i did not say another word until halftime

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Two Bit Sparty@TwoBitSparty·1d···

18 tackles for loss.

eighteen.

i thought the graphic was broken

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all three downs@allthree_downs·1d···

The thing that beat MSU on that first drive was not the option. They handled the option three straight times. It was misdirection off it, twice, to the fullback, because they were loading the box and nobody was home at the second level.

Fixed it inside a quarter.

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kev@okemos_kev·1d···

brother i watched the same game and my note says 'fullback bad'

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all three downs@allthree_downs

The thing that beat MSU on that first drive was not the option. They handled the option three straight times. It was misdirection off it, twice, to the fullback.

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Lauren@laurenmk_·1d···

ok but the sideline when milivojevic threw that touchdown. i started crying at a 49 point blowout. embarrassing

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Michigan State Football@MSU_Football·1d···

Alessio.

4-of-5. 100 yards. 2 TD.

Fourth Quarter

54 YARDS
MERLINO

▶

0:41

Milivojevic to Rowan Merlino · a five-yard drag route

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Brooke@brookeinEL·1d···

FIVE YARD DRAG. FIVE. and he went 54. i screamed in a bar full of people who had stopped watching

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Locked On Spartans@LockedOnSpartans·23h···

Shane got emotional about the backup quarterback's fourth quarter and refused to be embarrassed about it. New episode.

Locked On Spartans

FOUR MINUTES
AND THEN NOTHING

▶

58:14

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gridchart@gridchartcfb·1d···

MSU first drive allowed: 2 explosive runs, 1 TD.
MSU rest of game allowed: 0 first downs.

I have looked at a lot of box scores and I do not have a good comp for that shape.

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nana@NanaSparty·1d···

I did not enjoy the first ten minutes. I enjoyed the rest of it very much. That is all I have to say about it.

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Paper Bag Sparty@paperbag_sparty·1d···

at 7-7 i put the bag on. at 21-7 i took the bag off. at 56-7 i put the bag back on out of respect for the bag

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Joel Klatt@joelklatt·20h···

Michigan State didn't play the 4-2-5 everybody was told to expect. They played three-down, four-down, and a handful of five-man fronts with two backers against an option team.

It's Grambling. It's also Week 1, and that whole package was installed and ready to go.

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kev@okemos_kev·20h···

joel klatt said something nice about us and i had to sit down

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Urban Meyer@CoachUrbanMeyer·19h···

They beat Grambling State.

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Two Bit Sparty@TwoBitSparty·19h···

yes. by 49. with one penalty. thank you coach

Urban Meyer@CoachUrbanMeyer

They beat Grambling State.

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Brady Quinn@BradyQuinn·19h···

For what it's worth, the Michigan State sideline coming apart for a backup quarterback in a 49-point game is a real thing. You can't stage that.

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Stephen Brooks@StephenBrooks247·22h···

Walk-on LB Chris Piwowarczyk started over scholarship LB Cam Stodghill and finished with 4 tackles and 2 TFL.

Shorter, stouter, harder to move. Against an option team you take the guy who is harder to move.

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Sam@beanwaterboy·22h···

piwowarczyk. i have typed it four times and gotten it right zero times

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kev@okemos_kev·21h···

a walk on started ahead of a scholarship kid in game one and nobody leaked anything about it

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Helmet Scout@HelmetScout·21h···

the walk-on is 22 and the head coach is 28. six years between them

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Poll Watch@pollwatchcfb·1d···

AP Top 25, Week 2

1 Miami (+5)
2 Ohio State
3 Oregon
4 Georgia
5 Indiana
6 Texas
7 Texas A&M
8 Oklahoma
9 LSU
10 BYU

Dropped out: Notre Dame, SMU

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Poll Watch@pollwatchcfb·1d···

11 Alabama
12 Michigan
13 USC
14 Louisville (+10)
15 Texas Tech
16 Penn State
17 Iowa
18 Ole Miss (-9)
19 Utah
20 Tennessee
21 Houston
22 Washington
23 Florida
24 Mizzou (NEW)
25 TCU (NEW)

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Canes Can't Miss@CanesCantMiss·1d···

NUMBER ONE. we have been number one for eleven hours and i have not slept

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Rebel Roundup@rebelroundup·1d···

down nine for losing one game to a team that is now 14th. cool poll everybody

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Subway Domer@SubwayDomer·1d···

we are unranked. i have nothing to say. i have never had nothing to say before

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Ben Kessler@BenKesslerCFB·1d···

Notre Dame is out of the Top 25. They were third two weeks ago. Michigan State plays them in South Bend in two weeks.

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Nadia@sparty_soberish·1d···

two weeks ago that game was a free swing. now it's a trap. i hate this sport

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Grand River Late@GrandRiverLate·1d···

we have exactly zero practice at being the team that is supposed to win a big road game. zero. we are extremely good at showing up somewhere as a 17 point dog and having a nice time

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Will Hunter@WillHunterLO·23h···

Reminder before everybody decides Notre Dame is finished: they still have better players than we do. Whatever is broken over there did not happen because they ran out of talent in nine days.

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cornfield neutral@cornfieldneutral·22h···

wisconsin beat notre dame 38-10 and the entire internet made it about notre dame. wisconsin scored 38 points. can somebody in this sport be happy about wisconsin for one afternoon

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Heisman Watch@HeismanWatchHQ·1d···

John Mateer, Oklahoma:

28/36, 323 pass, 2 pass TD
22 car, 203 rush, 7 rush TD

Nine touchdowns.

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kev@okemos_kev·1d···

seven rushing touchdowns is a whole career for some guys and he did it before dinner

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No Context B1G@NoContextB1G·1d···

a Northwestern safety had two pick sixes on Saturday and it was the fourth biggest story of the day. this sport is unwell

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Heisman Watch@HeismanWatchHQ·1d···

Board: 1. Jeremiah Smith (WR, OSU) 2. Julian Sayin (QB, OSU, +2, six TD) 3. Dante Moore (QB, ORE, -1) 4. Arch Manning (QB, TEX, -1)

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parlay bill@parlaybill·1d···

FAU led in the fourth quarter in the swamp by multiple scores and i had florida -21. i want to be left alone

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Michigan State Football@MSU_Football·1d···

We're going to leave this here.

Second Quarter · 0:10

FOURTH AND GOAL
FROM THE TWO

▶

0:28

Ruled incomplete. The stadium disagreed.

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Tre@tre_from_holt·1d···

HE CAUGHT IT. HE CAUGHT THE BALL. what does survive the ground mean. it is a ball

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dad of three, fan of one@spartandad_1978·1d···

i have been going to games in that stadium since 1996 and i have never heard it get that loud over a play that did not matter. it was 28-7

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Nadia@sparty_soberish·1d···

loudest we have been in years and it was about a call in a 21 point game in the second quarter

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Two Bit Sparty@TwoBitSparty·23h···

i was furious for about an hour and then i forgot about it forever

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Paper Bag Sparty@paperbag_sparty·23h···

three straight runs from the two and not one of them goes to the best running back in the big ten. that's my actual complaint and nobody is doing it with me

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Beth Kowalczyk@BethKowalczyk·20h···

Saturday, noon, Spartan Stadium. Eastern Michigan is 1-1.

Their quarterback is Noah Kim, a seventh-year graduate student on an NCAA waiver. He started at quarterback for Michigan State in 2023.

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kev@okemos_kev·20h···

oh.

oh no.

i completely forgot he existed and now i feel terrible about that too

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Grand River Late@GrandRiverLate·20h···

2023 was not a football season. it was a legal story with a game attached to it on saturdays. that kid was 21 and he was the one standing at the podium every week

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Lauren@laurenmk_·19h···

i said things about him on this website in 2023 that i would not want read back to me

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Holland Spartan@HollandSpartan·19h···

no. i'm not doing the apology tour. he was our quarterback, he wasn't good, we lost, people were mad. that's football. everybody's rewriting it because it's a story now

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Lauren@laurenmk_·19h···

there is a difference between saying a guy played badly and what actually happened to him online that year

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Holland Spartan@HollandSpartan

no. i'm not doing the apology tour. he was our quarterback, he wasn't good, we lost, people were mad.

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Holland Spartan@HollandSpartan·18h···

fine. some of it was bad. i still don't think i owe anybody a paragraph about it

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nana@NanaSparty·18h···

I am going to clap for him when he comes out and then I am going to want us to win by forty.

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Brooke@brookeinEL·18h···

nana is undefeated on this website

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Ypsi Gameday@ypsi_gameday·18h···

reminder to everybody discovering our quarterback this week: he has been our quarterback all year. he is a captain. he is 1-1 like the rest of us. this is not a movie

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Ben Kessler@BenKesslerCFB·17h···

The strange part is administrative rather than emotional. Nobody currently on the Michigan State staff was in the building in 2023. The opposing quarterback has more institutional memory of that program than its head coach does.

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Two Bit Sparty@TwoBitSparty·17h···

that's actually deranged when you write it out like that

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Ben Kessler@BenKesslerCFB

Nobody currently on the Michigan State staff was in the building in 2023.

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Paper Bag Sparty@paperbag_sparty·17h···

three quarterbacks in that stadium saturday. one is making his second career start. one just went 4 of 5 in the fourth quarter and made everybody cry. one is in his seventh year of college and has been at three schools. good luck to all of them genuinely

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Sam@beanwaterboy·16h···

my group chat has been arguing about this for 30 hours and nobody has said one word about eastern michigan's defense

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Madeline Kenney@MadKenneyFreep·16h···

Joey Mattord is from Hartland. Quinn Fracassi is from Howell. Jason Marshall is from Trenton. XaVior Tyus is from Portage.

There will be a lot of families in that stadium Saturday sitting on the wrong side.

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mitten preps@mittenpreps·16h···

four kids from an hour away who michigan state didn't take, playing in that stadium on saturday. happens every year and nobody talks about it

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Ann Arbor Adjacent@AnnArborAdjacent·15h···

enjoying watching msu fans discover empathy on a schedule

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kev@okemos_kev·15h···

you beat western michigan 17-9 on saturday. sit down

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Ann Arbor Adjacent@AnnArborAdjacent

enjoying watching msu fans discover empathy on a schedule

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Ann Arbor Adjacent@AnnArborAdjacent·15h···

we won

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Barstool Michigan@barstoolum·14h···

W is a W. next question

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maize pilled@maize_pilled·14h···

i am begging our offense to score more than 17 points against anybody. anybody at all. i will take 18

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Robby Fenner@RobbyFenner·1d···

Carson Coakley (No. 1 overall, TE, Md.) has named Michigan State in his top group and scheduled an official.

Top three: Alabama, Indiana, Michigan State. He is moving fast.

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kev@okemos_kev·1d···

the number one player in america scheduled an official visit here. i need everybody to stay extremely calm about this

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Two Bit Sparty@TwoBitSparty·1d···

nobody in this fanbase has ever stayed calm about anything

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Robby Fenner@RobbyFenner·1d···

Sateki Vaeao (No. 33, C, Calif.) — Michigan State is the leader. Heavy pursuit, gaining ground against USC, Texas, Oregon, Florida, Notre Dame.

Devin Jennings (CB, Ohio) — Michigan State is the leader, field is wide open.

George Dickinson (OT, Wis.) — Michigan State leads.

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Robby Fenner@RobbyFenner·1d···

Also: Patrick Paul (No. 14, CB) has cut Michigan State. Jeremiah Stick (EDGE, Ark.) — MSU is out, by their own choice. Josh Ingold (EDGE, Minn.) — losing ground, Minnesota surged.

Everyone else, no news, which is the normal condition in September.

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blue chip board@bluechipboard·23h···

msu leading for a center from california and an offensive tackle from wisconsin is a weirder sentence than the five star tight end and nobody is talking about it

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Tre@tre_from_holt·23h···

patrick paul locked us out and thanked us on the way out which is somehow worse

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The State News@thestatenews·1d···

Students stayed to the end of a 49-point game. Attendance held past the third quarter for the first time anybody on staff can remember.

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Kaylin Osei@kaylinosei·1d···

asked eleven people leaving the stadium what they thought and nine of them said some version of 'that was fun' and two of them asked me who we play next

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East Lansing After Dark@EastLansingAfterDark·1d···

grand river at 4pm on saturday was the busiest it has been in september since 2021 and i am including a home ohio state game

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Lot 63@parkinglot63·1d···

people were still tailgating at 5:30. after a 49 point win. nobody left. i've never seen that here

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Concessions Watch@concessionswatch·1d···

the north end pretzel line was 22 minutes at halftime. they are not ready for a good football team

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MSU Marching Band@msu_smb·1d···

Thank you, Spartan Stadium. See you Saturday. 🎝

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Mid-Michigan Weather@midmichwx·20h···

Saturday: mostly cloudy, 71, small chance of a shower late morning. Noon kick. It'll be fine.

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Stephen Brooks@StephenBrooks247·1d···

Leo Hannan, first career start: 19-of-23, 250, 2 TD, 0 INT, 82%. Plus six carries for 24, most of them on third down.

Second start is Saturday. The completion percentage will come down.

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Nick Mansour@CoachMansourMSU·22h···

Proud of the way our guys handled the first drive. Nobody flinched and nobody needed a speech. On to Eastern Michigan. Go Green.

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Brooke@brookeinEL·22h···

'nobody needed a speech.' i don't know why i liked that as much as i did

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Lauren@laurenmk_·22h···

he's so fine. that's it that's the reply

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Nadia@sparty_soberish·22h···

lauren every single week

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100.9 The Mitt@1009themitt·21h···

Dave is annoyed that a 49-point win gave him nothing to be annoyed about. Full show up now.

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Marcus@marcus_themitt·21h···

he read a two page rant he wrote for a loss and then put it in the trash on air

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trench tape@trenchtapehq·20h···

Rustin Young at center, first career start at the position, 6-7: zero sacks allowed, up and down in the run game but mostly up, got off blocks into space well.

Nobody put a real nose tackle under him. That test is still coming.

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sz numbers@sz_numbers·20h···

9.4 yards per play is an enormous number and i am legally obligated to tell you in the same breath that the opponent was an FCS team

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Sam@beanwaterboy·20h···

every single good number this week comes with a footnote and i'm choosing to read only the top half of the sentence

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Big Ten Football@B1Gfootball·18h···

WEEK 2.

Saturday, noon ET. Eastern Michigan at Michigan State.

Week 2 · Saturday

EASTERN MICHIGAN
AT MICHIGAN STATE

Noon ET · Spartan Stadium

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Locked On Spartans@LockedOnSpartans·17h···

Three things Saturday.

1. Do they play a normal defense now, or was all of that Grambling-specific?
2. Does Hannan look the same when somebody can cover?
3. Can we get out of that stadium without anybody embarrassing themselves about Noah Kim?

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Helmet Scout@HelmetScout·16h···

chris creighton has been the head coach at eastern michigan for 13 years. when he got there that job was considered unwinnable. he took them to bowl games. that is a real coach and nobody outside this state knows his name

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dad of three, fan of one@spartandad_1978·16h···

second straight team nobody respects and south bend is in two weeks. i'm not predicting anything. i've just seen this one before

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Barstool MSU@barstoolmsu·15h···

56 MORE PLEASE. THANK YOU.

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Two Bit Sparty@TwoBitSparty·15h···

barstool has one setting and honestly it's been working

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Ypsi Gameday@ypsi_gameday·14h···

we are 1-1 and going to a big ten stadium and everybody there is talking about a poll they aren't in and a quarterback they didn't want. sounds great. see you saturday

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kev@okemos_kev·13h···

that's a really good post and i hate it

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nana@NanaSparty·12h···

Noon Saturday. Wear the white one. Bring a jacket, it turns in the fourth quarter this time of year.

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Nadia@sparty_soberish·11h···

week two and i am already tired. see you at noon

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