#7 Oregon at #5 Michigan State

The winner of this game boosts their potential for a playoff run.   Either team will still have a ton of games to play and a log hard season in front of them, but this is one of the top games of the year.   Probably the best out of conference game.  Last year the game against Michigan State meant that we were not in the 1 loss conversation.

Last week both Michigan State and Oregon looked suspect as a top 10 team in certain aspects.   Oregon's young secondary struggled against the passing attack of an FCS school.   Good news is our secondary is young and the optimist in me says they were just a little shell shocked, everything will be back to normal this week!   The pessimist in me will have my cheeks puckered until we make some open field tackles and break up a pass or two.    Expect Michigane State to be settled in as well, they have a solid D that didn't play to their liking.


Here's what I'm looking for this week.

#1 - More Vernon Adams.  He ran the offense great, I love the way he throws the deep ball our for people to make a play.    Six foot five inch Dwayne Stanfor has to be loving those jump balls.

#2 - The D line needs to get to the QB.   We ran a pretty vanilla defense, expect to see some stunts this week.  But Buckner is supposed to be our blue chip top 10 NFL pick.  Sometimes I'd like to see him just blow up the tackle and get after the QB.  Maybe even through a double team.  hoping to see Canton out there as well.

#3 - Rolls Royce Freeman.   I saw a lot of people griping that his 180 yards and 3 TD's didn't get much attention.  He has a big nasty #5 team to chew up this week.  Looking for him to continue his success.

#4 - Addison had a pretty quiet return to football off his injurty.  3 catches, 24 yards and a TD.   Want to see him break one this week.

#5 -  The new O line.   This week will be a test of the o line minus Grasu and Fisher.  If they can get Royce to the next level our offense has a great night.


I do believe we go into the Spartan back yard and pull our a victory.  We'll have to tackle better than we did last week.  I'm picking a 52 - 28 game.  I think the D makes some adjustments and improvements as well as picks up some turnovers due to having such a rough outting last week.