Forget feeling confident in the 2023 Michigan State football team heading into Week 1, it was near impossible to even know what to expect at all. A new starting quarterback, new skill players and a defense that spent last year hanging on by a thread – at best.
After the first half against Central Michigan any answers that fans may have gathered were far from positive. Things looked pretty miserable at half, even with the three-point lead. But whatever Mel Tucker said to the team in the locker room worked some kind of magic because the MSU team in the second half could not have been more different.