An article title from Today's WSJ digital.

Haven't read the article.

Am back from a fun two game trip to E L.
Won't ever change My airplane Aisle seat.


I do find it necessary to redirect Some backpacks before they collide with my face.
One of my joys of flying nowadays.

,,,,300

Was sitting in Section 121 for the Wisconsin game. I thought the Chop Chop towels made for a good fan atmosphere and they looked good as I looked across to the student section. What are your thoughts? Should this become part of home games moving forward?

The Big Ten had a pretty good night going 7-0.

Obviously our Spartans knocked off LIU 3-1 in a dominating effort. Wisconsin finally got in the win column winning 5-2 on the road at #12 UMD. #1 Minnesota beat rival North Dakota 3-2 in OT. Michigan beat LSSU 5-2 in the Soo. Notre Dame shut-out Western 2-0 in South Bend, Penn State beat St. Thomas 3-2 in OT, and Ohio State beat Bentley 3-1 at home.

The Big 10 is now 25-8-2 (.742) in out of conference games.

Not bad.

Depending how hard MSU pushes on this group, I could see them landing multiple prospects from this group.

Have you guys seen the Netflix trailer yet? This comes out next week, I haven't been this excited for a movie in a while.

So my fiancé is a special needs teacher at Jackson Northwest… One of her students has cystic fibrosis… which means unless this kid who is 14 gets a double lung transplant, he’s on a real time clock of life… This student is up at sparrow and some players came up with a coach… Her teacher aide said he thought it was the head coach… and she said “ Nope I know what Tuck looks like.”

She said he was bald … so I showed her a pic of Harlon… she said “ yep that’s him”… Whether it was Harlon or possibly a different coach… Just want to put it out there what a special group of coaches and players that are here.

They made young Brayden’s day today.

Their plane went down 45 years ago tonight! Went down because they were out of fuel unfortunately! Damn fine rock and roll band!

GOOOOO STATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spartans take game 1 from LIU …3-1. St. Cyr between the pipes.

Payments made thus far total $700mm

USC has paid the most - $1.1b

Not sure what amount tOSU has paid

MSU and UM are also cited in the article at $500mm and $490mm, respectively

John Manly represented some plaintiffs in UCLA case

I understand he came back for a sixth year but interesting to shut it down mid season.

Just different world not making a judgment orstatement if it's right or wrong.

College football is definitely changing

So the overall record since 1990 (32 games) is UM 17 wins and MSU 15 wins

In another thread a poster noted UM usually only beats MSU when we are having a mediocre year - so I looked into those numbers and here is what I found:

* - When MSU has eight or more wins in a season since 1990 - MSU's Record against UM is 10 - 1

* - When MSU has seven or fewer wins in a season since 1990 - MSU's Record against UM is 5 - 16

* - When Both MSU and UM have more than eight wins in a season since 1990 - MSU's Record against UM is 6 - 1

Conversely for UM:

* - When UM has eight or more wins in a season since 1990 - UM's Record against MSU is 16 - 9

* - When UM has seven or fewer wins in a season since 1990 - UM's Record against MSU is 1 - 6

* - When Both UM and MSU have more than eight wins in a season since 1990 - UM's Record against MSU is 1 - 6


Here is the year by year data:

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WHEN BOTH WIN EIGHT OR MORE GAMES IN A YEAR
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ANNUAL DATA GOING BACK TO 1990
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Can they batter up UM a week before UM plays OSU? Will UM look past Illinois?

Congrats to the ladies for their BIG Championship!

But this team hasn't just been good. You can make a case that they have been absolutely dominant.

Consider this:

• 17 games played
• 37 goals scored, only 7 goals allowed. Seven!
• 12-1-3 record .853
• Their ONE loss was on the road, 1-0 to a ranked Arkansas team.
• 8-0-1 in BIG play. .944 (Home game against Rutgers still to play.)

This team is special and kicking some serious a$$.

Jon Jansen said that Michigan will be wearing all-yellow (certainly their prerogative). My opinion is Michigan State in an all white uniform is not enough contrast for the players on the field. The fantastic Spartan green would allow a much greater contrast for say Payton Thorne or JJ McCarthy picking up their receivers down the field while scrambling away from D-linemen determined to make a big play for their team.

Also, someone said it will be a "Blue-out".

Michigan State 26 Michigan 17

GO GREEN

In general, I like to use Kenpom data, but it certainly has its limitations, especially early in the season. That said, his method does tend to correlate well with point spreads, and point spread correlate very well which actual results on the hardwood.

That said, here is what Kenpom says about the Big Ten:

No. 12 Indiana +23.01
No. 23 Iowa (!?!?!) +19.36
No. 25 Purdue +19.21
No. 26 Michigan +19.18
No. 31 Michigan St. +18.15
No. 32 Ohio St. +17.82
No. 33 Illinois +17.66
No. 46 Penn St. +15.54
No. 50 Rutgers +15.05
No. 55 Wisconsin +14.44
No. 56 Maryland +14.15
No. 70 Northwestern +11.70
No. 108 Nebraska +6.31
No. 109 Minnesota +6.19

Other noble (potential) opponents:

No. 1 Kentucky
No. 3 Gonzaga
(No. 9 UNC)
No. 18 Alabama
No. 20 Villanova
(No. 27 UCONN)
(No. 29 Oregon)
No. 43 Notre Dame

Finally, the projected record is 17-12 overall and 11-9 in conference play (without the extra two games at the PK80 event considered).

Have not seen Simmons on Kickoff and punt teams lately is going to redshirt? Just wondering who will be our RB's next year?

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Thought this was a nice touch.

For the QB That's the son of Belfor the fighter?

I have been keeping tabs on some of the guys that MSU missed out on (Goodwin) or seemingly passed on (Baer).

It looks like Goodwin is solid as a true freshmen but not quite there yet. They mentioned some issues he has had getting off the ball on the snap count, but he has played in 6 games so far on an underperforming OL to date. He will likely be really good by the time he is a Sophomore. He is currently 6'8 350.

Baer isn't playing much at all and likely won't play much this year. He has received good reviews though and will likely be a starter in a year or two. He is currently 6'7 335.

You know which game I'm talking about. I'm going to guess that we will be about 20 point dogs, which will make the victory so sweet if we win.

I'll admit it. Before the Wisconsin game, I thought MSU had no chance to win this game but our Spartans showed they respond to motivational coaching. They looked a lot better against Wisconsin. So, Comp is right-I am an idiot (for a variety of reasons, I'll readily admit) for not believing.

I see that Thorne is way better when Reed is healthy. Keon Coleman is better when Reed is playing. The defense is better with X and Slade.

If we can stuff Michigan's run game, we have a puncher's chance. I'll make no predictions except for I think Vegas will give MSU 20 points but I just remember what happened 2 years ago when our guys were big time dogs and pulled it out. A wounded dog is a very dangerous animal.

Once again I am coming to the bastion of all knowledge for help.

My wife and I are heading to Mexico in January. Usually we book through Apple vacations and the transportation is included in our package. We are doing it a little differently this year. Doing some research and it seem like it isn't as easy as hailing a cab to get to our resort. We are staying about 40 miles away from the airport. Anyone with any experience in this field? Thanks in advance.

10/24 at 7:00 pm on BTN

MSU win clinches a tie for BIG title

Does anyone think Germie can transfer from receiver to running back, perhaps next season if needed?