This is the nightmare the Spartans always feared but never spoke of, worse than the Braylon Edwards nightmare, or the John L. Smith nightmare, or the nightmare where you wake up in a cold sweat thinking you went to work dressed like Johnny Spirit.
This is the dream scenario Wolverine fans always envisioned, and kept believing despite getting rudely awakened year after year. Michigan State couldn’t continue to defy its history and nature with its astonishing streak of winning games in the final 10 seconds, developing NFL talent and rubbing its rival’s upturned noses in it, right? And Michigan couldn’t continue its astonishing streak of willful indifference to the acts of blocking, tackling and grunting with purpose, right?