1.) It's better to be lucky than good. You could fairly make the point that MSU was the better team on Saturday and that we won because of it. Our slow 1st quarter starts only seemed to get slower with the extra bye week. We are allowed to play winning football all 60 minutes of a game, we just seem not to.
2.) Point #1 seems unfair to make in a way, this is the best season at MSU in a long, long time. We can stop pointing to the 99 team as our year where we were really, really good. We're really, really good now. This is what really, really good looks like. That being said, this team feels like they are within grasp of great because we haven't seen a complete game out of them yet. They could be great if they could play 60 minutes like they did in the second half of the Wisconsin game, but they haven't yet and that window is closing.
3.) You need to root Northwestern and Michigan this upcoming weekend. Two years ago, we needed an OSU loss and an MSU win to tie for the conference championship on the last weekend of the season. Yet, many MSU fans were rooting for the continued implosion of UM football, despite it sending us to the Citrus Bowl.(It became irrelevant when PSU beat us up anyway.) It's ok to continue rooting for that, but not this weekend, this weekend we need them to beat OSU.
4.) That said, MSU is almost certainly going to the Citrus Bowl, this is sort of a blessing in disguise. I think we would represent well against the SEC #3 team, Alabama maybe? Unlike two years ago where I firmly believe we were the worst 9-3 team in college football and ended up playing a Georgia squad cranky about it's lot in life. We didn't stand a chance in that game and I thought we actually played better than I'd expect.
5.) I wouldn't mind playing Alabama, they have a history of underperforming in their bowl game when they are deigning to play a bowl beneath them. That's certainly true this year, so Roll Tide Roll? Also, MSU vs Saban, Saban vs Dantonio, etc. That'd be pretty rad.
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