Michigan State Football Looks To Continue Momentum After Last Week

Michigan State football is currently 3-6 this season. After winning the two first non-conference games on the schedule, the Spartans dropped six straight as it looked more and more like the green and white were sinking into irrelevancy like before.

Then last week MSU stormed into the Big House in Ann Arbor and took down the Michigan Wolverines to gain the first win in almost two months. With the excitement and energy surrounding the program, head coach Pat Fitzgerald and MSU Athletic Director Dan Bartholomae took the the streets of downtown East Lansing Wednesday night to rally students to not only attend, but to stay for the entire duration of Saturday’s game.

Free tickets were given out, it was announced that concession prices for MSU students would be cut in half after the second quarter, as previously announced for the last two home games, and any student can bring a friend to the game for no cost.  Clearly the new athletic leadership has made the student attendance problem at MSU football games a main concern and priority.

With all the momentum coming to Fitzgerald’s program, the question is will all of the work be worth it? Will Michigan State students help create a hostile atmosphere that apposing teams will be intimidated to play in?

That question relies on the Spartans performance in tonight’s game.  The students are projected to show up based on comments from the public Michigan State social media stories and various individual posts, but if the Spartans walk into the locker room at halftime down by more than two possessions, all of the hard work that the administration has done could be forgotten and lost.

Adversity In Travel Changes Kickoff Time

After the FAA nation-wide grounding of all flights last night, the Washington Huskies arrived in Lansing at approximately 2:00 a.m. EST this morning, getting to their hotels closer to 3:30 a.m. EST. As a result, the kickoff for Saturday’s game was pushed back 75 minutes, from 4:15 p.m. EST to 5:30 p.m. EST.

For the Huskies, the adversity does not bode well with normal pregame preparations for a program. From breakfast to walk-throughs, getting to the actual stadium, changing, warming up and a ton of other things that teams do before kickoff starts, the Huskies have changed their pregame routine, and if you combine that with the jetlag that some members of the Husky program could potentially be experiencing, the green and white have a massive opportunity in their hands to take a victory tonight and move to four wins.

And if that happens, Michigan State students are much more likely to not only stay for the entire duration of tonight’s game, but also to support the Spartans next week on Friday, as the no. 16 Oregon Ducks come to town.