Michigan States loss against Central Michigan was a big dissapointment to the players and coaching staff. They are angry, but the fact of the matter is Central Michigan is a good team and it took a miracle for them to beat Michigan State. A perfect onside kick and C-Mich drove the field lined up for a 47 yard field goal and missed, Spartans win! Nope, an offside penalty gives them an extra 5 yards and Central Michigan out of the MAC upset Michigan State. The MAC gets better every year and Michigan State faced the best QB they will face all year in my opinion in Dan Lefevour who has numbers over the last few years that rival Tim Tebow without the Tebow weapons. Lefevour will definatley be playing on Sundays next year. He did blast Michigan State's secondary, considered by many to be the strength of the team for 328 yards, but that was mostly by dinking and dunking and don't forget he has much more mobility than Jimmy Claussen who has looked impressive and has a better WR corps. So why does Michigan State cover the spread. In my opinion 10+ points is simply too many for this match up. Notre Dame's defense is not as good as they showed against Nevada as they gave up 430 yards to a Michigan team that was just not that good a year ago. Michigan State has everyone back in their secondary from a year ago minus Otis Willer, but they got back Roderick Jennette who was a projected starter the year before but had to sit out for academic reasons. This will be a big test for the Spartans and I see that they'll be up for it as their defense translates better vs. the pro style offense rather than the spread that they had to face last week. On offense they really need to establish a running game, but if they don't they have a pair of QB's that can keep up with Jimmy Clausen. Kirk Cousins has looked impressive and has yet to throw an INT. They have the weapons offensively to move the ball. This game is going to come down to mistakes and I'm just talking about who will win the game. I think it will be a close game all the way through and a mistake will be the different but even then it's not going to be a 10 point mistake so I'll gladly take this amount of points as Vegas is making a bigger deal out of Central Michigan's miracle win over Michigan State. I believe this would be a TD spread if Michigan State wins that game.
