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Spartan Stadium will enter its 86th season as home to Michigan State football in 2009.

Since its opening in 1923, Michigan State has won nearly 69 percent of its games played in Spartan Stadium.

MSU SPARTANS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

09/05/09 vs. Montana State East Lansing, Mich. TBA
09/12/09 vs. Central Michigan East Lansing, Mich. TBA
09/19/09 at Notre Dame Notre Dame, Ind. 3:30 p.m. ET
09/26/09 at Wisconsin Madison, Wis. TBA
10/03/09 vs. Michigan East Lansing, Mich. TBA
10/10/09 at Illinois * Champaign, Ill. TBA
10/17/09 vs. Northwestern * East Lansing, Mich. TBA
10/24/09 vs. Iowa East Lansing, Mich. 7:00 p.m. ET
10/31/09 at Minnesota Minneapolis, Minn. 8:00 p.m. ET
11/07/09 vs. Western Michigan East Lansing, Mich. TBA
11/14/09 at Purdue West Lafayette, Ind. TBA
11/21/09 vs. Penn State East Lansing, Mich. TBA

All persons, including children of all ages, must have a ticket for admission to Spartan Stadium. Re-entry is prohibited at Spartan Stadium. Once you exit the stadium, you may not re-enter. Gates open 1 1/2 hours prior to the scheduled game time. The Tower, for access to the suites and LaSalle Bank Club will open two hours before the game.

MSU 6 / Georgia 3 - 3rd Qtr 6:39

Michigan state is playing pretty well against who was ranked #1 in the country at one point.

Georgia. one of SEC's best is currently behind michigan state in the 3rd quarter.

3rd Qtr 4:01
1st and 10 at MSU 35

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Michigan State is playing in its first New Year's Day bowl since it beat Florida, 37-34, in the former Florida Citrus Bowl at the same venue in 2000.

Unlike most other bowls, however, the Capital One Bowl provides 100 hotel rooms for the football team and 75 for the marching band free of charge. That amounts to around $200,000 that MSU didn't have to spend.

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3rd Qtr 3:11
2nd and 9 at MSU 28

(Georgia now ahead by 4 after a Georgia touchdown)

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Michigan State Spartans Capital One Bowl Tickets

The Capital One Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played in Orlando, Florida at the Citrus Bowl, and previously known as the Tangerine Bowl (1947–1982) and the Florida Citrus Bowl (1983-2001).

Financial services company Capital One has been the title sponsor of the bowl since 2001 when it was the Capital One Florida Citrus Bowl but with the exclusive Capital One Bowl moniker since 2003. The bowl is operated by Florida Citrus Sports, a non-profit group which also organizes the Champs Sports Bowl and Florida Classic.

Georgia -vs- Michigan State - Jan. 1, 2009, 1 pm EST

Capital One also sponsors the annual "Mascot of the Year" contest. Fans are invited to vote for their favorite college mascot. The mascot with the best record will be declared the winner and is honored on the game telecast on ABC.

MSU gets rest before showdown

EAST LANSING (AP) — Mark Dantonio and Brian Hoyer were on the same wavelength, as all good coaches and quarterbacks should be. They agreed that a bye in Week 12 would be no good if Michigan State hadn’t gotten past late losses and self imposed limits. The wins include a 21-7 victory over Purdue last Saturday.

“Without great adversity, there can be no great success,” Dantonio said Tuesday at his weekly media session. “I really believe that. It helps you become stronger and see things more clearly when you have problems. There is no easy road to the top, regardless of what your profession is.”

With just one defeat from September through November, the No. 18 Spartans (9-2, 6-1 Big Ten) hold a half-game lead over No. 10 Ohio State and No. 7 Penn State in the conference and can get no less than a share of the title with an upset in 11 days at Penn State.

No Michigan State team has ever won 11 times, but this year’s Spartans have done just enough to keep the dream of a BCS game very much alive.

“The Rose Bowl is our ultimate goal,” Dantonio said. “If we win next week, we move one step closer to getting there, whether it’s a year from now or two years from now or three years from now. You can point back and say, ‘We had an opportunity here.’ ”

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Appearing minutes after the conclusion of the October 25th 35-21 triumph for the Spartans over their bitter rival Michigan, celebratory electronic billboards – with witty fun-filled jabs at the Wolverines – were lit near Frandor Shopping Center (Coolidge Rd. at Grand River Ave.) as well as at the Beck Rd. exit (for westbound travelers) on Interstate 96 near Novi.

• Leaders and Best? In Your Dreams Maybe. MSU 35 U-M 21
• Where's the Arrogance Now. MSU 35 U-M 21
• Leaders and Best? Seriously?? Lately? You've Got to Be Kidding. MSU 35 U-M 21
• Holy Toledo! Bye Bye Bowl Streak. MSU 35 U-M 21
• Oh Well, There's Always Men's Basketball. Sorry, My Bad. MSU 35 U-M 21
• It's Not Over, And It'll Never Be Over Here. It's Just Starting . MSU 35 U-M 21
• Pride Comes Before The Fall - Mark Dantonio, Nov 5. 2007. He Tried to Warn You. MSU 35 U-M 21
• Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Your Football Team's Terrible, And Your Basketball Team, Too. MSU 35 U-M 21

Spartans hurt themselves in season-opening

Michigan State's football team:

1. allowed a blocked punt for a touchdown,
2. betrayed itself with silly penalties,
3. missed a short field goal,
4. threw a bad interception and
5. had two apparent scoring passes called back by the officials.

And that was just the first half!

Frustration ruled much of Saturday night for the MSU Spartans. MSU hung close and gave the favored California Golden Bears a game, but all those missed chances added up to a loss. In addition, it was a tough 2008 debut in coach Coach Dantonio's second season.

Just like all six losses last season, all of which came by a touchdown or less, the Spartans fought and stayed close but came up a couple plays short.

The result? Season-opening 38-31 loss to Bears

Finally, Spartans talking about bowl game

The Spartans have hope.

Although a 6-6 Big Ten team could get shut out of a bowl this year, one more victory could send Michigan State to the Motor City Bowl at Ford Field.

Two more victories might mean a trip to the Insight Bowl (Tempe, Ariz.) or Champs Sports Bowl (Orlando). Three or four victories could even bump the Spartans into the Alamo (San Antonio) or Outback Bowl

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A Defining Moment

MSU's football team, and new coach Mark Dantonio, face their greatest challenge and ultimate role model at Ohio State on Saturday. This is a difficult test, but it's perfect for a first-year coach rebuilding a program in his mentor's image.

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Find a way, finding their way. One's a short-term task for the Spartans; the other's a long-term goal. They intersect this week, and if you've been paying attention to this season and this team, you know anything is possible.

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MSU Football - Same old, Same old

Spartan defense lets up over 600 yards and racks up over 50 yards worth of penalties. Yet Spartan offense scores fourty-one points but still not enough. Sound familiar to you? Just like last year the Spartans choke in a big game and the result of hangover, lose the next game.

I'm not saying this is the same team as last year, because I am a true believer of Mark Dantonio, but I'm tired of this crap. I just hope the Spartans can turn it around against Indiana and maybe a win over Iowa would send us to a bowl game.

On the bright side Javon Ringer had 185 yards and three touchdowns, Devan Thomas had over one-hundred recieving yards and a touchdown, and Brian Hoyer did not look bad until over-time. But a key to a quarter-back is providing in the clutch moments and Brian Hoyer has just not done that this year.

On the negative side Wisconsin lost to Illinios, so how good is Wisconsin? Bowling Green gets rolled over by Boston College so what does this all say about us? We have faced no good opponents beside Wisconsin and honestly I think Wisconsin is only worth number twenty in the country.

Any predictions for next weeks game against Indiana or anything you would like to add about the analysis?

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The student section might sound a little different at Spartan Stadium on Saturday.

A grassroots campaign spearheaded by political theory sophomore Jason Leva and other members of the Spartan Tailgate Red Cedar Message Board are trying to start a new cheer based on the team’s mantra: “Pound Green, Pound.”

The cheer — which goes “Line ‘em up/ Knock ‘em down/ We are one/ Pound Green, Pound” — will occur during the first defensive MSU play after a kickoff or punt and after failed third down conversions by the opposing team. The cheer mirrors the 1960s cheer “Kill Bubba Kill,” when defensive lineman Bubba Smith played for the Spartans.

Current players have differing stories of how the phrase was introduced to this year’s team - but all I say is .. if it can get us win's than Go For It.

Um .. I mean Go Green ... Go White