Spartans lose Cook, win

Locksley complimented the secondary’s effort against one of the Big Ten’s top quarterback-wide receiver combinations in MI State’s Connor Cook and Aaron Burbridge. Fellow guard Bryn Forbes, a long-range threat for the Spartans, said Valentine’s strengths complement his game well.

Junior middle linebacker Riley Bullough put his experience as a running back a couple seasons ago to good use when he returned his second interception of the season, and the fourth of his career, 44 yards for the touchdown that broke a 7-7 tie with 2:07 remaining in the first half. It was a bad call, but the Spartans had other opportunities to win the game. On the previous play before the controversial touchdown pass, Spartans senior cornerback Arjen Colquhoun dropped a game-clinching interception in the endzone.

The 43rd match-up between MSU and Ohio State might be the team’s most highly-anticipated game to date, though nowadays that seems to be the case each year, and the players know it. One a third down throw the ball came out wobbly and clearly not as well as Cook usually throws it.

The Cats are one of six Big Ten teams ranked this week, in addition to No. 3 Ohio State, No. 5 Iowa, No. 13 MI State, No. 14 MI and No. 25 Wisconsin. In a role reversal for the first time this year it was the defense that carried the Spartans to the victory as the offense sputtered in the absence of Connor Cook. Obviously as a B1G fan I want to say that but my cousin just started his freshman season as a forward at Air Force so I am now an Atlantic Hockey guy also! Copeland played two games before he was lost for the season because of a fractured vertebra, and Williamson played five games before having surgery on a torn bicep. At the end of it all, Maryland fell 24-7 and to a record of miserable record of 2-8.

“Connor will be all right”, Dantonio said after the game, according to ESPN. MI State came away with the win. I’ll say BC wins 3-0 but coach Anastos gets to see his daughter score a goal for the Eagles women’s team Friday afternoon. Hills took a majority of the snaps, but Maryland completed just 17-of-36 passes for just 182 yards as a team. The puck drops between MI State and BC on Friday night at 7:00 PM, and as usual BCI will have you covered.

Quarterback Perry Hills and the Terps would move the ball back into Spartans territory shortly thereafter, but the threat ended when tailback Brandon Ross coughed up the football on the Spartans 29-yard line. Maryland Terrapins scored 33.4 points compared to allowed 22.1 points with point differential of 11.3.