If I researched correctly, when a player different than the one receiving the ball calls for a fair catch - the ball is spotted where it was caught.

If that’s the case - wouldn’t you tell your players that only the player receiving the ball should call for a fair catch?

Definitely hurt State. Am I missing something?

The guy is terrible. Okay, so as a former player he is trying to learn a new craft, but give him a game where UM is not playing.

His whining when the referee held up the snap to let State sub was insufferable. At the end, he said something about a great game between rivals - big brother and little brother. I don’t think it was an intended insult it just rolled off his lips. Bad commentary everywhere. I’ll stop.

How about the emergence of the O-line? Where did that come from?

I thought I heard Smith say last week that the same unit played the entire game together for the first time. Anyway, the run game was there last night - unfortunately the victory was not.

Michigan State redshirt junior running back Nate Carter rushed for 118 yards on Saturday night against the rival Michigan Wolverines, which is his highest total since joining the Spartans in 2023. He also scored a rushing touchdown.

Carter had a 34-yard run on a third-down-and-9 play in the first quarter, which was the longest rush of the game for either team. He added two catches for 56 yards, including a 30-yard reception on a crucial third-down-and-10 play late in the fourth quarter.

However, Carter's stellar performance against the Wolverines was not enough for the Spartans, as mistakes ultimately proved to be too much for MSU to overcome in a 24-17 loss to Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Carter thinks his team had every opportunity to beat the Wolverines on Saturday night, but the Spartans ultimately fell short. He believes MSU will learn from its mistakes against the Wolverines and will be ready to take on a good Indiana squad next week.

"I think more than ever, we're going to be more focused and locked in (on Indiana)," Carter said. "We believe we should have won this game (against Michigan), and I think everyone in the locker room knows that we probably should have won this game. There was no doubt in our mind coming into this game that we shouldn't have won. And there's no doubt in our minds that every single game after this isn't a winnable game. So, we have to continue to work, we have to continue to grind. We have to continue to do all that we can do so we can finish every single game out with a 'W' to end out the season the way that we want to."

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