EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State, which won the 2015 Big Ten Championship and reached the College Football Playoff last season, enters the 10th season of the head coach Mark Dantonio era in 2016 ranked No. 12 in the Associated Press Preseason Poll, released on Sunday.
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The Spartans closed last season with a 12-2 record and finished ranked in the AP Top 10 for the third year in a row (No. 3 in 2013, No. 5 in 2014, No. 6 in 2015), a first for the program since 1955-57.