Michigan State didn’t have the season it was hoping for, but it didn’t keep punter Bryce Baringer from an award-winning year.
On Tuesday, the gradate senior was named the Big Ten’s Eddleman-Fields Punter of the Year. He was also named first-team All-Big Ten by the coaches to become the first Spartan punter to earn first-team all-conference honors since Mike Sadler in 2012 and 2013.
Baringer leads the FBS in punting with a 49-yard average, which is currently a Michigan State single-season record and the second-best average in Big Ten history. Michigan State also ranks No. 1 in the FBS in net punting (45.