EAST LANSING – Rutgers has its best player back, for a home night game, which will be enhanced by a "Blackout" — the fans and the Scarlet Knights dressed in black — and intensified by the need to make some good news against a team that disrespected Rutgers a year ago.
Or at least that seems to be the perception coming from Piscataway, N.J., where No. 4 Michigan State will play tonight for the second time, and the first time in a conference game. The Scarlet Knights haven't forgotten last season's 45-3 loss in East Lansing, which featured an MSU attempt at a fake field goal in the second half with a 35-0 lead.