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Michigan State Offers A Pair Of 4-Star Recruits In 2028 Class
Michigan State wants to make sure the offense is in a good position for years to come. This means making a push for the top players in the upcoming classes. The Spartans recently offered four-star Ben Coleman. The product of New Lenox, Illinois, announced that he received this offer on Thursday night. At 6-foot-4, 285 […]
How To Watch Michigan State Vs. Northwestern – Details, Quick Facts, And Predictions
Last weekend was Homecoming in East Lansing. This weekend is a homecoming of sorts for our Head Coach Pat Fitzgerald as well as for Northwestern’s QB Aiden Chiles. It’s a game that has big implications for the trajectory of both schools’ seasons. For MSU, any remaining hope of a bowl game probably goes out the […]
Beyond Fitzgerald & Chiles: What Will Actually Decide MSU vs Northwestern
Many headlines coming into this game will focus on Pat Fitzgerald facing his alma mater, and the team that he coached for 17 years, and Aidan Chiles’ return to Spartan Stadium. The Spartan players must be aware of the circumstances surrounding Fitzgerald’s departure from Evanston, but Fitz seems highly unlikely to make this a point […]
Getting To Know The Enemy: 6Qs About The Northwestern Wildcats
Happy Thursday, TOC Nation. It’s the game we’ve all been looking forward to since the day Pat Fitzgerald was hired. I sat down with Charlie Jacobs from Inside NU to learn a little bit more about this weekend’s opponent. Let’s see what he had to say. The Only Colors: This game has a couple of […]
Scouting Northwestern: Personnel, Scheme, and Aidan Chiles’ Resurgence under Chip Kelly
After a crushing overtime loss to Illinois, Michigan State must regroup quickly to face a Northwestern team that has been very impressive through the first half of the season. Equally impressive has been the play of Wildcats’ quarterback Aidan Chiles, who will return to Spartan Stadium after entering the 2024 and 2025 seasons as MSU’s […]
Michigan State Football Film Review: Creativity Comes at a Cost vs. Illinois
Coming into this game, Michigan State had lost three straight and was dealing with injuries all over the roster. The Spartans played like a team with their backs against the wall, and I loved seeing it, even in a 38-37 overtime loss. Offensive coordinator Nick Sheridan wasted no time getting creative, opening the game with […]
Jaziun Patterson: Backup RB Is Newest Player Of The Game
Do the Michigan State Spartans have a new offensive weapon #1 in Jaziun Patterson? If his performance against Illinois has anything to say about it, we just may. The senior transfer who stepped into the starting lineup after Cam Edwards was lost to injury a couple of weeks ago, shined this past Saturday and won […]
The Only Colors Reacts Survey
The Michigan State losing streak is now at four games, and now we are going up against a top-25 team. We have a game chock-full of storylines aside from just what the two teams will bring to the field. How, if at all, will those side stories, impact what happens? Will Pat Fitzgerald be on […]
Interview With Football Strength & Conditioning Coach, Joel Welsh
TOC Nation, we have a treat for you today. Robbie and I recently had the pleasure of sitting down to interview Joel Welsh, Michigan State’s Strength & Conditioning Coach for the football program. For a number of reasons, this will go down as one of the highlights of my time working for The Only Colors. […]
A Supersized Wacky Weather Report: MSU Football and Hockey
To describe the Illinois game as a wacky football game at Spartan Stadium on Saturday is an understatement. The emotions that went through me as a fan, an alumni, a pessimist and an optimist had my stomach sick and my blood boiling. I needed something to put me at ease, shout out to King Pho […]
Instant Recap: Michigan State loses 38-37 in OT against Illinois
Your Michigan State Spartans have now lost four straight games, including their three Big Ten games, and now sit at 2-4 on the year. It was another game full of MSU shooting themselves in the foot as Illinois spoiled homecoming in East Lansing. The first quarter was a disaster. After the first 15 minutes, the […]
Game Thread: Michigan State Vs. Illinois
It’s Homecoming in East Lansing. Tailgating will be done to the max and hopefully the crowd inside Spartan Stadium is feeling extra amped for today’s game. For all of you here at TOC Nation, I hope you are all amped up as well and ready to help put the good vibes out into the universe […]
Survey: Michigan State To Beat Illinois
It’s Saturday, and that means the votes are in. Thank you for all of you who have been voting in these polls. And if you have another second to spare, please go back to yesterday’s article to share your specific score prediction. Quick reminder that these surveys will appear in The Feed early in the […]
Michigan State Loses 2027 Target To SEC Team, Class Remains In Great Shape
Michigan State has been active chasing multiple top players in the 2027 recruiting class. The Spartans have landed two big names to this point but recently missed out big man Kamsi Awaka. The product of Cheshire, Conn. committed to Florida on Thursday. He visited the Gators in September and ultimately made his final decision. Awaka […]
How To Watch Michigan State Vs. Illinois – Details, Quick Facts, And Predictions
Happy Homecoming Weekend to all who will be in East Lansing and participating in the festivities. After three consecutive losses, MSU is looking to right the ship against a team that is also coming into this game with a 2-3 record (0-2 Big Ten) and on the heels of an embarrassing loss. Please, please, pretty […]
Spartan Hockey Season Opens This Weekend
Spartan fans that have been looking for something more exciting than football can breathe a sigh of relief as Adam Nightingale and the 2026-2027 Spartan hockey team takes the ice in Munn for their season opener on Friday, October 9 at 7:30pm. Game two will actually be on Sunday, October 11 with a puck drop […]
Getting To Know The Enemy: 6Qs About The Illinois Fighting Illini
Happy Thursday, TOC Nation. It’s Homecoming Week at Michigan State, and we are back with another 6-pack of questions. This weekend’s opponent is the Illinois Fighting Illini, and I sat down with Isaac Ambrose from The Champaign Room for some insight into this game. Let’s see what he had to say. The Only Colors: Illinois […]
Michigan State vs. Illinois Game Preview
Homecoming at Michigan State will hopefully feature some beautiful fall colors and weather. Unfortunately, it will also feature two struggling football teams. The Spartans and Illinois enter Saturday’s matchup (3:30 PM ET, FS1) with identical 2-3 records, including 0-2 in the Big Ten. MSU, as we’ve seen, struggles to prevent big plays on defense and […]
The Film Room: Wisconsin
“Did we really get beat that bad?” Sometimes the analytics offer a little more hope than your eyes did. For Michigan State fans, that might be welcome after Saturday. When coaches talk about being one play or one assignment away, you want something to suggest those corrections could actually make a difference. Maybe the gap […]
Michigan State Picked Second In Preseason Big Ten Poll
Michigan State has high hopes entering the 2026-27 college basketball season and rightfully so. The Spartans were picked to finish second in the Big Ten this season in a poll conducted by The Columbus Dispatch. Since the conference does not release a preseason ranking, 28 media members throughout the Big Ten put together votes to […]
The Only Colors Reacts Survey
We have seen the product that the MSU Football Team has been putting on the field get worse and worse over the last three weeks, culminating in a 31-3 loss to Wisconsin this past Saturday. On top of that, injury concerns continue to mount. Right now, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of reasons […]
MSU vs Wisconsin Weather Report
Michigan State football becomes more tragic with every week of every season. I’m convinced we are all stuck in one of Dante Alighieri’s seven levels of Hell. This tortuous way the Spartan fans have had to endure recently has been far more than just clouds. It is a fog. Like some weird, dark, Ministry of […]
Instant Recap: Michigan State gets embarrassed by Wisconsin
If you thought it couldn’t get worse after the Nebraska game, well, it did. The Badgers embarrassed the Spartans today with a 31-3 beatdown. Cam Fancher and Caleb Wheatland went down with injuries. Things got so bad that even freshman QB Kayd Coffman saw playing time before the clock hit zero. The defense continues to […]
Game Thread: Michigan State @ Wisconsin
Welcome to October and the heart of the college football season. Today, I need TOC Nation to pump the cheering up to an 11. Our team needs all the good vibes we can put out there to get us a road win against the Badgers. So crack open a cold one, hang out on the […]
Survey Results: Scoring Margin Vs. Wisconsin
It’s Saturday, and that means the votes are in. Thank you for all of you who have been voting in these polls. And if you have another second to spare, please go back to yesterday’s article to share your specific score prediction. Quick reminder that these surveys will appear in The Feed early in the […]
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