While Michigan State is in panic mode after a shocking loss to a now bowl-eligible Illinois crew, the Michigan football team is coming off back-to-back victories with one of them being over a top ten ranked opponent.
You could say MSU was banged up a bit after the land mine of a schedule over the four weeks before the disaster last weekend. The Spartans met Ohio State at The Shoe, followed by another away game at Wisconsin, and it culminated two weeks later in East Lansing with a thrashing from Penn State. In that series of matches, Michigan State was outscored 100-17.