My uncle, an OSU alum, was up in Michigan on business, and stuck around Saturday to go to a fairly big UM-PSU game. I think both were top 15ish. He didn't actually have tickets to OSU, and it was a 3:30, after the noon UM-PSU game, so he went to the game, then game back to my parents house to watch OSU-MSU. It was such a weird feeling, because none of us were MSU fans, but obviously we were all rooting against OSU, as UM fans, and just fans of the upset, but didn't want to actually do so, because you could see the devastation slowly taking over his face. Then he had to pack it up and drive 3 hours back to Ohio.
That game was obviously an upset, but was only as big an upset because of how schitzo MSU was. That was WAY too good a team to go 6-6. They beat OSU, jumped out 42-3 in the 2nd quarter on a top 25 Notre Dame team, but got destroyed by Oregon and PSU, and had bad losses to Minnesota and Colorado State. But the core of the team that finished top 5 the next year was there, they just lacked consistency. But their A game was really good.
