We gave up 171 yards on the ground to a one dimensional team. I thought the defense sucked today all things considered
They had 38 rushing attempts and have a pretty good OL. Our defense played fine. Good enough to win. Like I said, we are very young at key positions and lack a lot of experience and depth on defense. It will take the entire season for them to really start clicking and improve a lot.
Outside of QB, Oline might be MSU's biggest issue.
They returned all five starters from last year and their OL is the most experienced position on offense.
False.
LT - Redshirt Soph who should be an OG but is playing OT due to injuries and such.
LG - RS Sr
C - RS Jr who broke his leg in the first conference game of last year. This was his 2nd game back from injury
RG - RS Sr who played LT the last two years
RT - RS Fr in his second game ever. Sometimes we replaced him with a senior JUCO transfer who had a season-ending foot injury vs. ND last year.
I have no idea where you managed to pull that tidbit of info from.
http://www.nationalchamps.net/2013/earlybird/teams/michiganstate.htm
This preview shows 4 starters returning + 1 starter who is returning from injury.
Way outdated.
FB Thomas moved to DT (long-term position) and is injured.
RT Burkland retired from football due to injury.
C Jack Allen did not play today and is also injured. He played C last year when Jackson broke his leg.
LT France was moved to RG (never played that before).
TE Lang is like 3rd string, don't think he played today.
RB Hill is like the 3rd string tailback but did a good job today.