Game Day Skull Session: Get Dumped Then, Michigan State

By D.J. Byrnes on November 19, 2016 at 4:59 am
November 19th 2016 Game Day Skull Session: Get Dumped Then, Michigan State.
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Well, well, well... if it isn't the destitute juggalo who broke the previously undefeated "Get Dumped Then" voodoo and stole the local team's dreams last season. (You look like Swamp Thing.)

All I remember about that game is an Ohioan kicker — forever exiled from this great state — windmilling out of Ohio Stadium like he won a national championship.

And so he did, because a Big Ten championship is as close as Sparty fans who weren't alive in...  *googles "Last Michigan State football championship" ... 1966 will ever come to their team winning a national championship. 

Hmm, yes, why don't people think—ah, that's right. Life comes at you fast. (People forget a cabal of OSU fans tried to install Mason as a coach.)

Fact: Michigan State is 3-7 since Alabama tombstoned them.

Lansing Forecast via Google

I don't trust weathermen or their forecasts, but this seems about right for a Brutus-Sparty banger. The good news is Urban Meyer can't ignore Ezekiel Elliott.

Today's slate: We're riding with Arizona State, Wake Forest, Rutgers, and Oklahoma—though a case could be made for West Virginia. I have no problem with West Virginia so I'm open to persuasion.

11/19 SLATE
TIME (ET) GAME FAVORITE TELEVISION
12:00 BUM SQUAD at No. 25 TEXAS A&M A&M (-27½) ESPNU
12:00 No. 11 OKLAHOMA STATE at TEXAS CHRISTIAN TCU (-4½) FS1
12:00 No. 7 WISCONSIN at PURDUE WISC (-28) ABC
1:00 No. 23 FLORIDA at No. 16 LOUISIANA STATE LSU (-14½) SECN
2:00 OREGON at No. 12 UTAH UTES (-14½)
3:30 No. 17 FLORIDA STATE at SYRACUSE FSU (-21) ESPN2
3:30 No. 22 WASHINGTON STATE at No. 10 COLORADO BUFFS (-5½) FOX
3:30 MISSOURI at No. 19 TENNESSEE TENN (-16½) CBS
3:30 INDIANA at No. 3 MICHIGAN UM (-24) ESPN
5:30 No. 24 STANFORD at CALIFORNIA STAN (-11) PAC12
7:00 No. 4 CLEMSON at WAKE FOREST CLEM (-22½) ESPN
7:00 BUM SQUAD 2 at No. 1 ALABAMA BAMA (OFF) ESPN2
7:30 BUM SQUAD 3 at No. 15 AUBURN AUB (OFF) SECN
7:30 ARIZONA STATE at No. WASHINGTON UW (-27) FOX
8:00 No. 8 PENN STATE at RUTGERS PSU (-28½) BTN
8:00 No. 9 OKLAHOMA at No. 14 WEST VIRGINIA OU (-3½) ABC
10:30 No. 13 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA at UCLA USC (-13½) ESPN

Shoutout to the cowardly SEC, whose best game today is thanks to a hurricane canceling the original LSU-UF matchup on Oct. 8. 

Secondary shoutout to everyone who tweeted me this week that Mike D'antoni coaches the Houston Rockets. If y'all keep telling yourselves that, maybe one day it will come true.

 THE SPARTAN DOSSIER. Here's everything you need to know about the Spartans:

Be sure to follow @11W, @EricSeger33, @TimShoemaker, @AndrewMLind and @Edge11W on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news and analysis.

 #PERTINENTWIRE. This may not be the same team that beat Ohio State last year, but the game remains the game:

PREDICTION: Going to take more than inclement midwest weather to crumble my faith. 48-3, Ohio State.

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