By Steve Grinczel, MSUSpartans.com Online Columnist
GRAPEVINE, Texas – It’s as though the members of the Michigan State football team have been preparing for their College Football Playoff Semifinal game against Alabama their entire collegiate lives.
And because the No. 3 Spartans have evolved to this postseason stage of development under Coach Mark Dantonio, they are in if-it-ain’t-broke-don’t-fix-it mode.
The approach Michigan State is taking to Thursday night’s College Football Playoff game in the Cotton Bowl isn’t appreciably different from the one it took into last season’s Cotton Bowl, the 2014 Rose Bowl, 2012’s Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl or the Outback Bowl of 2012, each of which ended in victory over No.