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Game Thread: Michigan State @ UCLA
Game #8 is today and it is in a stadium that many of us Spartan fans have some wonderful memories of. Unfortunately, this matchup is not an earned bowl game at the end of a highly accomplished MSU season. Rather, our 2-5 squad is playing conference foe UCLA and their perfect 6-0 record. The Bruins […]
Survey: Pat Fitzgerald Should Be Given Plenty Of Time
It’s Saturday, and that means the votes are in. Thank you for all of you who have been voting in these polls. Quick reminder that these surveys will appear in The Feed early in the week as well as in their own article, so you should have every opportunity to see it and participate. You […]
Michigan State Hires Mike Polisky as Deputy AD and Spartan Ventures CEO
Earlier this morning, Michigan State announced the hiring of Mike Polisky. It’s an interesting hire and a name I hadn’t heard connected to the university, but his background offers plenty of reasons why it makes sense on paper. Time will tell how it works out. Polisky brings experience in brand building, revenue generation and sports administration. […]
Michigan State Spartans Schedule, October 23-29
TOC Nation, we are at that wonderful time of the year when all the major sports calendars overlap. The men’s and women’s basketball teams will be concluding their exhibitions in the next week before their regular seasons begin in the first days of November. The hockey team is already a few weeks in. And the […]
Spartans Look to End Frustration on the West Coast
Next up in this tortuous Michigan State football season is a trip to the Rose Bowl to take on the resurgent UCLA Bruins (3:30 PM ET, CBS). The Bruins enter Saturday’s game at 6-0 overall and 3-0 in the Big Ten, with consecutive impressive victories at Oregon and vs Wisconsin. UCLA is the last remaining […]
Jeremy Fears Named To Preseason All-America Team
Jeremy Fears received some very high praise this afternoon as the announcement of the Preseason All-America Team came out. And it is not just that Fears is on the team. It’s not even that he received more votes than anyone else. It’s that of the 58 voters, 57 of them selected Fears for their ballot. […]
Michigan State Film Room: Playing to Win, Then Playing it Safe vs Northwestern
This was Michigan State’s most frustrating loss of the season. For much of the game, the Spartans looked like the better team. The defense made plays, the offense created opportunities, and Michigan State held a lead. Ben Roberts and Anelu Lafaele gave Northwestern problems up front. This was a game the Spartans had every opportunity […]
MSU Basketball Preview: Summary Version
For everyone ready to move on to basketball season (and for those of us at TOC eager to write about something joyful), we hope the following preview is useful. Before we get to the preview, the Spartans take on UConn in their second exhibition game tonight. How to watch: Michigan State vs. Connecticut Time: 7 […]
The Only Colors Reacts Survey
Hey TOC Nation, we are going to try something a little different with this week’s survey. I have a good idea what the results would be if I asked you to predict the scoring margin in this coming Saturday’s game. Instead, I am turning to the topic of our head coach. There have been some […]
Ben Roberts Worms His Way To Player Of The Game Honors
It certainly will come as a surprise in a game we did not win that our Player of the Game honors go to someone on the defensive side of the ball. But that is exactly what happened in Michigan State’s 24-21 loss to Northwestern. Defensive tackle Ben Roberts, aka “Big Worm”, muscled his way for […]
Michigan State Ranked #6 In Preseason Polls
The preseason basketball polls came out today, and to no surprise, our Michigan State Spartans are close to the top of the list. In both the AP and Coaches Polls, MSU opens the season as the sixth-ranked team. There has been hype all offseason about this team so the high ranking certainly feels warranted. Coming […]
In Pictures: Spartans Lose In Painful Fashion To Northwestern
I had the pleasure of being on the field yesterday to take pictures for The Only Colors. For all the previously discussed storylines, this was the game on the 2026 schedule I really wanted to be at. From a photographic standpoint, the day did not disappoint. Even beyond the great pictures I was able to […]
Dark Clouds Remain Over Spartans in the Weather Report
Mercutio said it best in Romeo and Juliet “a plague on both your houses”. It does not matter if Michigan State football is playing at Spartan Stadium or on the road, whatever be the house, there is indeed a plague upon it. I have had this inkling for some time now, that MSU football, is […]
Instant Recap: Michigan State blows 8-point lead, loses to NW 24-21
Just when you thought Pat Fitzgerald was going to get his first Big Ten win as head coach of the Spartans, the rug was pulled out from underneath them in the final minute. The game started out slow as Michigan State would fail a fourth-down conversion on their opening drive, but Alessio Milivojevic was strip-sacked […]
Game Thread: Michigan State Vs. Northwestern
We are on to the second half of the season. MSU desperately needs a win to keep bowl game hopes alive. Pat Fitzgerald desperately wants to take down his alma mater. And Spartan Nation desperately craves seeing Aiden Chiles lose another game in Spartan Stadium. Game starts at 12 PM ET and is showing on […]
Survey: Michigan State To Fall Against Northwestern
It’s Saturday, and that means the votes are in. Thank you for all of you who have been voting in these polls. And if you have another second to spare, please go back to yesterday’s article to share your specific score prediction. Quick reminder that these surveys will appear in The Feed early in the […]
Michigan State Offers A Pair Of 4-Star Recruits In 2028 Class
Michigan State wants to make sure the offense is in a good position for years to come. This means making a push for the top players in the upcoming classes. The Spartans recently offered four-star Ben Coleman. The product of New Lenox, Illinois, announced that he received this offer on Thursday night. At 6-foot-4, 285 […]
How To Watch Michigan State Vs. Northwestern – Details, Quick Facts, And Predictions
Last weekend was Homecoming in East Lansing. This weekend is a homecoming of sorts for our Head Coach Pat Fitzgerald as well as for Northwestern’s QB Aiden Chiles. It’s a game that has big implications for the trajectory of both schools’ seasons. For MSU, any remaining hope of a bowl game probably goes out the […]
Beyond Fitzgerald & Chiles: What Will Actually Decide MSU vs Northwestern
Many headlines coming into this game will focus on Pat Fitzgerald facing his alma mater, and the team that he coached for 17 years, and Aidan Chiles’ return to Spartan Stadium. The Spartan players must be aware of the circumstances surrounding Fitzgerald’s departure from Evanston, but Fitz seems highly unlikely to make this a point […]
Getting To Know The Enemy: 6Qs About The Northwestern Wildcats
Happy Thursday, TOC Nation. It’s the game we’ve all been looking forward to since the day Pat Fitzgerald was hired. I sat down with Charlie Jacobs from Inside NU to learn a little bit more about this weekend’s opponent. Let’s see what he had to say. The Only Colors: This game has a couple of […]
Scouting Northwestern: Personnel, Scheme, and Aidan Chiles’ Resurgence under Chip Kelly
After a crushing overtime loss to Illinois, Michigan State must regroup quickly to face a Northwestern team that has been very impressive through the first half of the season. Equally impressive has been the play of Wildcats’ quarterback Aidan Chiles, who will return to Spartan Stadium after entering the 2024 and 2025 seasons as MSU’s […]
Michigan State Football Film Review: Creativity Comes at a Cost vs. Illinois
Coming into this game, Michigan State had lost three straight and was dealing with injuries all over the roster. The Spartans played like a team with their backs against the wall, and I loved seeing it, even in a 38-37 overtime loss. Offensive coordinator Nick Sheridan wasted no time getting creative, opening the game with […]
Jaziun Patterson: Backup RB Is Newest Player Of The Game
Do the Michigan State Spartans have a new offensive weapon #1 in Jaziun Patterson? If his performance against Illinois has anything to say about it, we just may. The senior transfer who stepped into the starting lineup after Cam Edwards was lost to injury a couple of weeks ago, shined this past Saturday and won […]
The Only Colors Reacts Survey
The Michigan State losing streak is now at four games, and now we are going up against a top-25 team. We have a game chock-full of storylines aside from just what the two teams will bring to the field. How, if at all, will those side stories, impact what happens? Will Pat Fitzgerald be on […]
Interview With Football Strength & Conditioning Coach, Joel Welsh
TOC Nation, we have a treat for you today. Robbie and I recently had the pleasure of sitting down to interview Joel Welsh, Michigan State’s Strength & Conditioning Coach for the football program. For a number of reasons, this will go down as one of the highlights of my time working for The Only Colors. […]
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