There would be no Michigan State upset of a highly-ranked Ohio State team on Saturday.
Barely.
Fifty years to the day that No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Michigan State played to a 10-10 tie at Spartan Stadium, No. 2 Ohio State edged Michigan State 17-16 on Saturday, a meat grinder, cold mess of a contest that may have undone much of the progress made by J.T. Barrett and Ohio State’s offense in 62-3 blowouts of Nebraska and Maryland in recent weeks. In this author’s opinion, any film of what transpired during Saturday’s mostly-blustery and B1G-y competition in East Lansing should be rounded up and tossed into Lake Michigan.