Rooting Conundrum - MSU or ND??

While I detest both State and ND, I'm rooting for ND in this one.  Let's see the State downfall begin early this year with ND, Wisc and then us.  We have to deal with State fans all year.  ND fans only come around once each year...and we already beat them.

think of it as a win-win situation...someone's gonna lose, and it will be a team you hate.

Personally, I want MSU to lose just so that in-state kids start really losing interest in State early. Plus, I love a good "Sparty, NO!!" moment in EL. I can totally see Rudolph and Floyd going wild with a "healthy" Crist wingin it all game and the occasional gash from Allen.

I don't just hate Notre Dame.  No, I HATE them.  That's all-caps bold hate.  I hate Michigan State -- that's your general annoying in-state rival hate. 

Michigan State isn't significant enough to garner my full-on HATE.  Let them win Saturday and get all huffy for a few weeks until we put them in their place on 10/9.

ND all the way.  I sit next to an MSU grad who is annoying the crap out of me as we speak.

But if Crist plays and ND wins states excuse will be that the only reason we won was because Crist was injured. ND already uses this excuse. Im undecided myself but im gonna watch and hope that somehow both teams somehow come out as losers. with that being said I still hope that MSU beats ND and Wisconsin that way when we beat them our win will look even better

and stadium collapse

ND beating MSU will have the Spartans mentally down and questioning their abilities.  That benefits us going into the game at MSU. 

We already beat ND, thats in the past.  Whatever helps us beat MSU in a few weeks, even if a marginal advantage, is welcome.

In all seriousness. We beat ND therefore I want ND to win so that by the transitive property we beat MSU

I have some good friends who really love ND, so as long as UM beats ND, i kind of pull for them in the rest of their games just so my friends are happy.  they do the same for me and UM.

ND is usually right behind OSU on my shit list, but I abhor Dantonio with such passion that I begrudgingly have to go with ND.  Also...Sparty NOOOOO!!

We have already beaten them, and I would love to see sparty going into its annual death spiral as early as possible.

It is more important to college football for ND to have national recogition and since we beat them I would like our win to look better (as stated by earlier posts). Also no one realy cares if MSU is any good in college football outside of East Lansing (and really why should they?).

I will be rooting for ND this weekend, although Earthquake and Locusts aren't bad either.

It is always better for Michigan when Notre Dame struggles. You know that Sparty will eventually revert to the mean, so I don't mind if they stick it to the Irish. Also, I want teams Michigan plays later on to be as highly rated as possible, so that it makes Michigan's win look more impressive.

Comedy.  You root for comedy.

The greatest MSU-ND game of all time was the monsoon game, as it was hilarious.

Though I would have preferred MSU to win, because I never, ever root for Notre Dame.  It is the one and only time I mildly prefer the Buckeyes to win though that's something like 392nd ranked behind things like earthquake, meteor, hurricane, tornado, alien invasion, etc.

ND, because I hate Dantonio and I want MSU to lose to a team at home that we beat on the road.

But to more important news, packs of wild dogs have taken over most of the major U.S. cities.

Hope nd come madder than hell,ready to put a ol fashion on sparty.

Please take them behind the woodshed BK...

We've already beaten them, so they can say nothing to us.  We might as well watch them beat Sparty on national television, god I hate Dantonio.  Plus it makes our win in their house look that much better.  Now let's just hope Te'o isn't hurt too bad by the beating Omameh put on him.

go ND.  make our win look better.

I don't know when the transition became complete but I now hate MSU more. Forever it has been ND. But the combination of ND's long-term woes and their snubbing of the Big 10 again, I say let's move on from them. As for MSU it is time to put them back in place. That needs to start again this year.

NEVER, EVER root for ND, under any circumstances. 

Never say never?  I'm saying NEVER.  I hate MSU but generally pull for B10 teams, even pull for OSU in their bowl games.  Like to see the conference do well. 

and stadium collapse....

If we hadn't already played ND, I would root for MSU. They're much less annoying than ND on a national level, and with few exceptions I root for Big 10 teams in nonconference games.

But...since we have already played ND and haven't played MSU yet, we want an indication that ND is better than MSU, which would make it more likely that UM will beat MSU. That doesn't necessarily have to be an ND win: I would settle for a game where ND pushes MSU all over the field but loses due to ridiculous mental errors, bad bounces, and bad calls. 

I can't stand MSU.

I want them coming into the Bigger House with huge heads, inflated self-regard, and a belief that we will just lay down for them.

It's like paper covers rock.  It's a rule.  And of course it is a really weak rule, I know, compared to rock smashing scissors.  Which makes it the perfect analogy for MSU over ND.

I hope for ND hearts to be broken again.  As I do every week.  I might actually root for ND, if they were playing, for instance, the Taliban, or al Qaeda or the Khmer Rouge or the North Korean national team.  But not against a Big Ten opponent.

If I can be pleased with Danny Hope's Purdue team beating the domers, I can certainly get down with Michigan State beating them.

ND plz.  ND fans are much less insufferable when they win because they're used to it.