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Michigan State Football: How close are Spartans to a national title?

Watching the clock tick down to the final seconds on the 2015 season, the Michigan State football team realized something: they had reached higher.

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Mark Dantonio had harped the words in preseason camps. “Reach higher,” the head coach claimed the mantra for the green and white. Those continued to be the words, even when sarcastic opposing fans used that against the Spartans following a Nebraska loss in November.

Michigan State still trekked on and eventually won, on the road with backup quarterbacks playing, against Ohio State and then in the Big Ten title game against Iowa to cap off an incredible streak following the loss to the Cornhuskers.