So, what does Notre Dame do next week in EL?

It will be a close game but MSU will have a sparty moment and give it away at the end.  I predict something like 35-31 for ND.  Cousins will have a big game but it won't be enough.

MSU better come prepared to play, cause the 2 teams they started out the season with won't have them prepared at all..

I hope ND shits on them, just because you look what any msu homer says and they think they are gonna win by 40..

They will be in for a rude awakening when their running backs won't run for over 150 yards against a solid defense.  Cousin's better step up his game as well.. Saturday he threw for under .50 completion percentage..

I can't really see them being able to stop Floyd and Rudolph if Crist is in there the whole time.

We have to root for our little brother and more importantly for the real big 10. Also, you probably missed the MSU V Florida Southern game. Not a "warm up" game. It was almost a serious embarrassment. 

Won't watch but will enjoying hearing the whining on Sunday.

I think Sparty destroys them. But, as always, I just root for lots of injuries.

ND wins BIG! They are are a really good team and we are really fortunate to walk out with a w

As long as Kelly can prevent his team from performing the folding chair act, I think MSU is going to have their hands full.  State did not look overly impressive yesterday.  In a game they were favored by 28 points, I can understand a little bit of looking-to-next-week's-opponent.  But watching the highlights, there were times that MSU just didn't look that good.  Kelly is going to bring a hornets nest into Spartan Stadium next week.  I just don't think State will be ready for it.

It's a very weird feeling watching that game every year.  I don't root for ND (I could NEVER root for ND) so I have to root for Sparty...but I don't feel good about it.

With the exception of that infamous 2006 game, MSU doesn't really choke against the Irish.  The home team has won the last two meetings.  Before that, the road team won the previous 6 meetings. 

Don't know much about MSU since they have only faced Western and FAU.  I have no idea who to pick in this game.  It's a tale of two evils.   

Is Keith Nichol still practicing at QB?

If ND plays as well as they did Saturday, don't turn the ball over, and Crist is healthy, then MSU is in a lot of trouble.

Somewhere along the lines of 34-17.

I think MSUs wide receivers will be too much for ND defensive backs and MSUs linebackers make A LOT of tackles

The talent seems pretty even but Brian Kelly > The Meathead

I don't know if ND will do the same as UConn, but after being "Denarded" last week, UConn opened a can of whoop-ass on Texas Southern and won 62-3. I think ND has something to prove and after their Denarding this weekend they open a can up against MSU. I don't think the MSU RB's will have the same easy course they have had against their 2 cupcake opponents. 

they'll be whining.  lose and they whine.  win and they'll whine about the UM loss.

I'm rooting for ND. Sparty thinks that after we beat the Irish they're going to be easy.

I am not just saying this to whoop on lil brother but I think ND is the better team, HANDS DOWN!!!

MSU has an easy schedule this year and they need all the losses they can get.

Hey guys, Lynn Henning already called that Sparty would handily beat the Irish. He made that prediction one sentence after announcing that ND would beat the Wolverines. Seriously.

ND will win if Crist is healthy for the whole game. Doesn't the away team almost always win this series?

I'm fascinated by the wide spread on predictions--I suppose that is in part a product of a relatively new season and different posters seeing different things.  But I think another product is both MSU and ND are really hard to get a good read on.  ND beat as close to a tomato can as you'll get in the Big Ten (yes, I know, Purdue did beat us the past two years...), and piled up a lot of yards in this week's box score (even though, with more context, their offense is not as impressive).  MSU, on the other hand, played tomato can-conference tomato cans and piled up tons of rushing yards.

Bottom line: we really don't know what type of team either one is at this point, so predictions vary from blowouts either way to close games either way.