The MSU football team (3-9, 1-8 Big Ten) certainly looked as if it began to turn a corner at the end of the season in preparation for the next. A 49-0 shutout win over Rutgers showed that maybe MSU wasn’t as bad as it’s record indicated. A one point loss to then-No. 2 Ohio State University offered up some consolation –– MSU could hang with the good teams, but just couldn’t find the inches they desperately grasped for all year.
A trip to Happy Valley on Saturday, resulting in a 45-12 statement victory for Big Ten East champions Penn State, proved something else –– MSU ran out of gas.