East Lansing — Slow motion — that’s how Keith Nichol remembers it these days.
It’s been almost five years since Nichol, then a fifth-year senior, was at the center of one of the most improbable, exhilarating plays in the history of Michigan State football, and he remembers it now as if hardly any time has passed.
It was Oct. 22, 2011, and Michigan State was hosting Wisconsin in a top-15 battle that took place in prime time in front of a national TV audience. There were wild swings in momentum with the Badgers going up early, the Spartans coming back and taking a two-touchdown lead only to watch Russell Wilson rally Wisconsin to a 31-31 tie.