The Michigan State Spartans pulled off a major upset on Saturday, going into the Big House and knocking off the No. 13 Michigan Wolverines by a score of 27-24. The Spartans entered the game as 25-point underdogs.
The win was coach Mel Tucker’s first as head coach at Michigan State after falling to Rutgers last week in the season opener. It was also the Spartans’ first win over their in-state rivals since 2017.
Following the game, the Michigan State Football Twitter account seized the opportunity to troll the rival Wolverines, tweeting out the video below.
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— Michigan State Football (@MSU_Football) October 31, 2020
Rocky Lombardi had his second straight 300-yard outing, completing 17 of 32 passes for 323 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions. His favorite target on the day was true freshman wide receiver Ricky White, who hauled in eight catches for 196 yards and a touchdown.
The other two touchdowns went to Connor Heyward, including a 13-yard score in the fourth quarter that gave the Spartans a 10-point lead with just over five minutes remaining.
During the Fox Sports postgame show, former Michigan great and Heisman Trophy-winner Charles Woodson praised the Michigan State coaching staff for its game plan.
“It seems like every time I step in this studio to root my team on, we go down, man. I apologize,” Woodson said. “Don’t blame the kids. Blame me. I got to give a lot of credit to Michigan State’s Mel Tucker and their coaching staff. Usually, a coach comes into a game with a philosophy and a game plan. We’re going to run the ball, run the ball. But what they did is found the weakness in Michigan’s team and they attacked it. And they attacked it over and over again. Talk about Lombardi the quarterback and the amount of yards that he threw for and this Ricky White kid. He absolutely went off today. We had no answer for him all day.
“They just exposed us all day. And you know the problem with that? Other teams are watching this film and are going to watch this film for the rest of the year. Michigan’s secondary and those coaches, they better get it together. If they don’t, it’s going to be a long season.”
With the win, the Spartans improved to 1-1 on the season. Next up is a road trip to Iowa City to face the Iowa Hawkeyes on Saturday. Kickoff is scheduled for noon ET and the game will be televised on ESPN.
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