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Michigan State football must bury this season — 2019 begins now

Chris Solari and Lansing State Journal sports columnist Graham Couch recap Michigan State's 14-10 win over Rutgers on Saturday. Graham Couch and Chris Solari, Lansing State Journal

EAST LANSING — Some years are just better when they’re over.

Michigan State’s football season reached that point Saturday, a 14-10 win over Rutgers that got the Spartans to 7-5, but — after three months of watching MSU’s offense — felt like a slow, miserable grind to 4-8.

These painful-to-watch Spartans are headed to a bowl game. They earned it. Well, their defense did anyway.