EAST LANSING – A Big Ten championship — how quaint.
In the era of the College Football Playoff and its weekly projections from every corner of the Internet, and in the Michigan State era of being a viable contender for that playoff, the pursuit of a conference championship seems lost in the noise at times. Cocah Mark Dantonio hears it, though.
"It's a really big deal to me," said Dantonio, whose No. 2 Spartans (4-0) will start the race today at homecoming against Purdue (1-3). "We coach in the Big Ten, so that's what I'm concerned about.