Michigan State’s storyline-packed game against Northwestern has a time slot and a television channel.
The team announced on Monday afternoon that its Week 7 game against the Wildcats on Saturday, Oct. 17, would kick off at noon ET and be a streaming-only game on Peacock. Prior to this game, though, MSU will host Illinois this coming Saturday, and Northwestern will host Ball State.
All Eyes on Fitz, Aidan Chiles
This game has been circled since the moment Michigan State hired Pat Fitzgerald to be its new head football coach this past December. The intrigue only grew when MSU’s former starting quarterback, Aidan Chiles, entered the transfer portal and eventually committed to Northwestern.
Fitzgerald has publicly downplayed the personal importance of this upcoming game to him, but keep in mind he practically WAS Northwestern football for a long time. He became one of the best linebackers in college football ever while playing for the Wildcats during the mid-’90s, and then went on to become the program’s winningest coach ever. His 110 wins at NU are more than double what any other coach has.
The type of season the Spartans might experience this year was practically an annual thing before Fitzgerald showed up in Evanston. Northwestern made the Rose Bowl in the 1995 season while Fitzgerald was playing, and that was the program’s first time just getting over .500 since 1970…