EAST LANSING – When it's playoff or bust, every result for every opponent on the schedule becomes your own.
Here's one that now indirectly belongs to Michigan State, and it's not a misprint: Utah 62, Oregon 20, Saturday night in Nike-land. Whether you thought it was viable or not — and it was — the scenario in which MSU sneaks into that College Football Playoff at 11-1 with a close loss at Ohio State is drifting toward fiction.
The reality is that MSU and its fans should neither worry about that nor get false security from sitting at No.