Having answered all the football questions, fifth-year senior quarterback Tyler O’Connor was asked to give his opinion about the Land Grant Trophy.
He laughed a little at the question, looked up and said, “The look of it?”
“It’s not the prettiest trophy I would say,” O’Connor said, chuckling. “But nonetheless, I guess it’s a symbol of it (the rivalry game) but it’s definitely not the prettiest or the most glamorous trophy.”
Of all the lesser known trophies in the college football world, MSU plays for perhaps one of the more unsightly ones. The Land Grant Trophy, conjured up in the collective minds of MSU and Penn State University’s athletic departments, is a hodgepodge of bookstore collectibles and pictures all placed onto a wooden block.