Are you sure hes going to play a ranked team? They shouldnt be ranked after this week
We will see, they need to handle business until then. We will have to see where the offense grows the defense should be able to go toe to toe they looked to make some adjustments and really the biggest one they need is Scott back in the secondary which you hope has happened by the Penn State game.
If Michigan has any type of talent at all they should handle MSU easily. Not very confident at all with Sparty this year. not looking forward to going to OSU...
Nobody has got much for tOSU, maybe Penn State or Wisconsin, we should know more about Penn State soon.
I think MSU will figure it out. In any event 19 of these starters already beat U of M. I think they have more talent across the board, I know you have some front-line guys on U of M but I don't think they fit within their systems and are utilized to the maximum. That is always were Dantonio has beat them, he puts his players in a position to be successful more often and they have been consistently the more physical team in the rivalry since he arrived there. Again until they play the game we won't know. But I have no reason to doubt they can beat a similar looking U of M team at home. They have the better coach and home field advantage. U of M would really have to do something they haven't done in a while. Regardless of ranking that would be a quality road win, what is Harbaugh's last quality road win?
I mean best you can argue is Purdue turned out to be okay, a win over a down 7-6 Penn State in 2015 a Minnesota team that wound up 6-7 in that year. I mean at the time maybe a the MSU win in 2016, but it turns out we know that team was falling off a cliff because of locker room problems and wound up 3-9. We will see, but it isn't really pretty when you look at the results thus far. I expect the Spartans to be a bowl eligible team with at least 8 or 9 wins, Harbaugh beat one of those in a long time on the road.
To me U of M is worse really across the board, they still don't really scare me. They got beat by 19 of the starters last year, if Scott is back MSU should be able to shut them down.
I was expecting significantly more out of Lewerke in the first two games though. Hopefully they get some things squared away during the buy week. One thing about Dantonio is his teams get better as the year goes along because his staff is consistently good at that, so I think they have more room for improvement.