Late Afternoon Games Open Thread - Christmas in East Lansing

ND must have had 5 or 6 shots from the 1 or 2 yard line...held to FG attempt.

I never realized that the whole digital screen that rings Spartan Stadium just runs ads.  It's just a massive waste of space.

Well, Illinois' defense was keeping it competitive for a  quarter and some change here, but they gave up two decent chunks of rushing and are now keeping it Illinois with that Buckeye TD. 17-6 Buckeyes. 

Y u so slow

Nfm

Wow. Tripled covered and still made the catch for a TD. Go Sparty! (gross).

14-7 pending the XP

Lippett is shocked he caught the ball....

TD Sparty, come on Sparts, win this game man

THAT's the crappy Nebraska defense we all expected.

Ugh. Sparty scores and I'm happy. What the hell has happened to my life? Someone spray me with a hose or something.

MSU receivers have gone from catching nothing to catching everything.

Haha just how they drew it up.

I keep expecting for MSU to regress to the mean personal-foul wise, yet they never do. I hate to perpetuate stereotypes and generalizations, but in this case it's very much true.

after this game for having to root for Sparty so badly

That pass to Lippett by Maxwell...

Bo Pelini is an angry man. 

love watching Abdullah try to block someone....it is always complete failure.

for a man that angry all the time. He's like the Izzo of football.

Why did Denard have to go down against Nebraska?  I have no doubt we would have won that game had he been healthy.

One of the lessons that will undoubtedly be learned from the Illinois-OSU game is that the Illinois secondary needs help....a lot of help, as they were just torched for a 51-yard TD reception and beat badly in pass coverage (big shock, right?). 24-6 Buckeyes. Is there a version of Tacopants that can play a little DB for them?

God, I hate rooting for Sparty. But I am. I haven't root this hard for MSU since that game they choked away to Notre Dame in 2006. MAKE PLAYS!!!!!!!!

Michigan State seems to have gone to it one too many times on that WR sweep!

9-6 Extra Point Pending!

Pitt up 10-6 on ND.

I told my sister, a pitt alum, that if they beat nd I would buy her and myself pitt jerseys. I really want a old school Marino jersey, fuck the Irish

Beautiful run by Pitt's running back.

Oh, but IT IS a Dantonio coached team

Pitt Touchdown. 10-6 lead over the fucking Irish

gets called for their 3rd personal foul in the last 10 minutes and Spielman says plays like that are not  like a Mark Dantonio coached football team. What? 

Well, an 18-yard punt became a 13-yard yard punt with the penalty, so the Buckeyes get excellent field position. Meanwhile, Urban Meyer is apparently intrigued by something literally IN the sideline in that particular shot. 

Georgia trying their best to blow it.

I don't understand. Did they forget how they played D against us?

how in the hell did Denard not run all over these guys?

For every time an announcer proclaims that a State player just committed a "boneheaded" play that is "contrary to the way Coach Dantonio coaches the game"... At some point it becomes indicative of the coach, doesn't it?

...I can puncho yo buns...

Nebreska's performance thus far gives me more confidence they could lose to Penn St next week.

Sparty is getting smoked because they have to respect Martinez as a passer. As much as everyone makes fun of the way Martinez throws the ball....this season he is light years better than Denard as a passer. Stats show it and the decision making shows it.

EDIT: The sparty Defense that is in regards to why Denard couldn't smoke them.