The Game of the Century always had about it a fragment of hyperbole.
C’mon. One game. And it would remain a pinnacle as college football’s first 100 years unfurled?
Quaint and cute, but probably inflated.
The fact is, that gray November afternoon in East Lansing was true to its billing, true to its incredibly freakish collision of schedules and teams in an era when neither the Super Bowl nor the BCS Championship had yet arrived, and when grand sports events weren’t staged or constructed as much as they happened naturally.
Even in 2016, 50 years after Notre Dame and Michigan State met as unbeatens, ranked No.