Michigan State isn’t winning football games at a rate that anybody should be happy with, with the latest 38-27 loss to Nebraska being particularly frustrating to some.
So far in the Jonathan Smith era, the Spartans are 8-9 overall and a below-mediocre 3-8 in Big Ten play. Since Mark Dantonio took this program to the College Football Playoff during the 2015 season, MSU is only 57-55 overall (.509 winning percentage) and 34-47 (.420) against its conference.
Somewhere, change needs to happen. If Michigan State doesn’t find three more wins in its remaining schedule, the Spartans will fail to reach six victories in four consecutive seasons for the first time since it happened five straight years from 1979-83. Things are not good when the program’s misery index requires one to dig back that far…