BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — “So what. Now what?”
All week, that’s what Mel Tucker drilled into his Michigan State football players’ heads.
The Spartans, No. 9 in the country and unbeaten at the midpoint of the season, one of college football’s biggest surprise stories, with the highly anticipated rivalry game looming.
So what. None of that mattered Saturday.
What did was a feisty Indiana team, wounded and fighting for redemption after its first three losses came against top-10 opponents. And the Spartans absorbed everything the Hoosiers gave them and still managed to emerge with a 20-15 victory at Memorial Stadium.