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Bob Wojnowski, John Niyo and Matt Charboneau preview this weekend's college football games between UM-Rutgers and MSU-Indiana. The Detroit News

East Lansing — For a few astute Michigan State observers last Saturday at Northwestern, worry began to creep in late in the second half.

Not because Michigan State was in danger of losing a game it had firmly in control, but because one of the Spartans’ young emerging stars suddenly was sitting on a cart, riding to the locker room. There was redshirt freshman running back Elijah Collins being taken in for x-rays on his hand.