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Will Michigan State play Michigan football in rivalry's first night game?

ROSEMONT, Ill. – If this year’s rivalry game against Michigan is going to be at night, Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis remains in the dark.

Hollis said he has not heard yet if the Oct. 7 game in Ann Arbor will be played as a late kickoff for the first time in the history of the 109-game series that began in 1898.

“It would come out of the league office in conversations with the networks,” Hollis said Monday at the league athletic directors meeting at Big Ten headquarters. “It’s a little bit less on the institutions anymore.