MI State’s Playoff Chances Are More Alive Than Ever

9 and 3 in the FBS polls, respectively. And Ohio State never did much to challenge the Spartans.

The Tigers have won 14 consecutive games and would match the program’s longest winning streak with a win next week.

“Honestly, we didn’t see those plays at all the rest of the game”, “I waited for those plays to be called, and they weren’t”. The last couple of weeks has truly taught us the power college athletes really have with their voices, once they express them.

Lots of emotions, lots of passion, lots of heart.

“It’s easy to lead when everything is going well and you’ve won a bunch of games in a row”, he said.

Ohio State (10-1, 6-1) plays at MI next week.

When the opening play happened during Saturday’s match up between two of the top teams in the Big Ten in Ohio State (10-1, 6-1 Big Ten) and MI State (10-1, 6-1), there was likely a feeling of dread in numerous Spartan fans’ hearts.

-Michigan State would meet Iowa in the Big Ten title game.

The fallout of Ohio State’s first loss in 30 regular season league games quickly overshadowed MI State’s victory.

Without Cook, the Spartans started Tyler O’Connor, and Damion Terry played, too. There was no panic from the Spartans. Three plays later, he faked two handoffs and threw a ideal ball to fullback Trevon Pendleton, who stretched to hit the pylon and score a tying 12-yard touchdown.

Elliott finished with 33 yards on 12 carries. His long run? Seven yards. That’s 4.9 yards per carry in a must-win Big Ten showdown. That streak is over … and so are any Heisman hopes for Elliott.

“This is my last game in The ‘Shoe”, he huffed afterward. If Northwestern loses, I think they go with Iowa here meaning the Hawkeyes would not be back in Tampa for at least five years.

Urban Meyer said that he and his family grew as close to the Elliotts as any player family since the Tebows.

“I’m disappointed”, he said. Was Meyer happy with it a year after last season’s offensive coordinator Tom Herman bolted to take the Houston job? “Just so many people at the line of scrimmage”, Meyer said. UH hosts Navy next Saturday, with the victor going to the American Athletic Conference title game December 5.

“Obviously (Michigan State) loads up the box in those kind of situations, and the passing game was just not there”, Meyer said. I asked for those plays to be called, and they weren’t.

“I deserve more than (12) carries”, Elliott said. “But things turned around and I was able to go out and practice… with no difficulty”.

MI State is right where it wants to be.

It was a odd, frustrating night for the Buckeyes on Saturday, as a conservative philosophy was met with very little success against MI State’s excellent defensive line. It was hard to tell whether the offensive line actually improved in pass protection from the week before because there was such a small sample size. Unbelievable. Take a bow, Dantonio. “We have to focus on our game against Auburn”. He said he was running a fever as high as 103 degrees. “Seemed like we were backed up a lot”. The Spartans rushed for 203 yards, many of them with OSU stacking the box. Terry was 1-of-4 for two yards.

Easy pickings: West Virginia had three 100-yard rushers – QB Skyler Howard, Wendell Smallwood and Rushel Shell – in squishing hapless, hopeless Kansas 49-0.

Don’t you wonder if things may have gone differently had Barrett been the quarterback all season?

The Buckeyes posted 2.93 yards per play on Saturday.

But MI State responded to each Ohio State touchdown with a touchdown of its own on the ensuing possession.