from The Sporting News
If Michigan State had a mobile quarterback and a spread offense, we'd tell you to go ahead and sleep, Spartans -- no nightmares or bad man with a hand full of knives waiting around the bend for you. Yet, nothing about Michigan's early-season losses -- the catastrophe against Appalachian State or the beatdown by Oregon -- looks to be present here with the immobile Brian Hoyer handing off out of ace and I-formations to the backfield duo of Javon Ringer and Jehuu Caulcrick.
Yet remember: Freddy dies at the end of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Michigan State's season is this game -- one game shy of bowl eligibility and teetering on the verge of doom with the apparent beginning of their annual late-season collapse. The Spartans look as dangerous as any team in the college football dreamland, playing a traditional rival and possessing a running game good enough to keep them in the game.
(Full disclosure here: We have a perpetual "man crush" on power backs, and Caulcrick is a bowling ball runner who looks like 240 pounds of angry ham rolling downhill. We don't even know what that means besides this: He's huge, and we like him.)
Michigan State has lost five in a row to the Wolverines, a nightmare that will end Saturday. Michigan has a very, very bad dream and gets the script unexpectedly flipped on it on the road in East Lansing, Mich. The pick: Michigan State, wearing a red-and-black sweater and black leather fedora.
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