{"id":7685,"date":"2023-10-06T15:04:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T19:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=7685"},"modified":"2023-10-06T15:04:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T19:04:41","slug":"michigan-state-football-bye-week-hopalytics-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=7685","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State football: Bye week Hopalytics preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the bye week which means that we don’t have to worry about Michigan State football for seven more days.<\/h2>\n

Hey guys, has anything happened in the last couple of days since our beloved Michigan State football team took a loss on the road at Iowa who played a backup offensive lineman at quarterback? The common theme in the last few weeks is the Spartans have had a better success rate than their opponents but have still lost. What does that mean? It means MSU played better than the other team but they just so happened to not take home the win.<\/p>\n

The bye week came at a great time for this team, though.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the perfect get-right week to make sure everyone is on the same page and this season doesn\u2019t start to get really bad real fast. Three straight losses hurt. Knowing you should have won two of those if it weren\u2019t for poor coaching and untimely turnovers hurts more.<\/p>\n

Here is what you need to know heading into the bye week(end)<\/h3>\n
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  1. QB change\n
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    1. Word on the street<\/a> says redshirt freshman quarterback Katin Houser will get the start against Rutgers on Oct. 14. Houser\u2019s little Twitter cult has finally willed their favorite player into the starting role. I was a Noah Kim believer in the beginning. I thought it was impossible that the staff would trot the worst quarterback out there but Kim\u2019s time is up. Five starts is enough for us to know what we\u2019re going to get. Houser season is upon us.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    2. Urban Meyer\n
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      1. Urban Meyer, Urban Meyer, Urban Meyer<\/li>\n
      2. Okay sorry about the above bullet point. I needed to get Urban Meyer\u2019s name into this post a bunch to help with my SEO. My boss is going to love me for that.<\/li>\n
      3. Urban is the big splash MSU needs to make with their next head coach. In the quickly changing landscape of college football, this is MSU\u2019s last shot to stay at the top end of the new Big Ten.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
      4. Mel Tucker\n
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        1. The results of the hearing came out on Thursday. This story has been repeated so many times that I\u2019m not going to say it again here. My only comment on this is that Tucker \u2018simped\u2019 a little too hard for a woman who allegedly wanted a piece of that $95 million check.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
        2. HopCat\n
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          1. Shameless plug to my favorite restaurant. I\u2019ll probably be dining in the world\u2019s finest establishment since there is no Spartan football this weekend.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Bye week 100, MSU 0<\/h4>\n

            0 TDs
            \n<\/em>HopMan tweets 120 times about Urban Meyer<\/em><\/p>\n

            Bye bye,
            \nHop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Can’t lose this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":7267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[191,189,504,521],"class_list":["post-7685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-michigan-state-football","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news","tag-urban-meyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}