East Lansing — Perhaps Jacoby Windmon summed it up best.
“Playmakers come out in the fourth quarter,” he said. “That’s pretty much it.”
It wasn’t everything for No. 15 Michigan State on Friday night in its season opener against Western Michigan in front of 73,928 at Spartan Stadium, but it surely helped that the Spartans made some big plays when it counted most in a 35-13 victory over the Broncos.
Windmon led the charge for the defense, collecting two of his four sacks in the final 15 minutes, each of them critical as the momentum had shifted early in the quarter in favor of the visiting team.