Barely 30 minutes after a brutal loss, and some 364 days after their last defeat, Michigan State’s seniors were sifting through the chaos and the controversy that has become strangely commonplace in college football.
And they were trying desperately to see a way out.
Or maybe even a way back in.
“If we win out, and beat an unbeaten Ohio State,” quarterback Connor Cook said, “I think some good things can come out of it.”
He tried to sound hopeful, but it wasn’t easy in that moment, even as he finished, “So it’s not the end of the world.