MSU football: Video analysis of the Spartans’ win over Boston College
Lansing State Journal columnist Graham Couch and Detroit Free Press columnist Chris Solari break down the Spartans’ overtime win over Boston College.
Michigan State football’s trip to Los Angeles will be a Big Ten after dark affair. And it will bleed into Sunday morning.
The Spartans’ game against USC on Saturday, Sept. 20, will kick off at 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT, according to the conference. It will be broadcast on Fox.
It will be the first Big Ten meeting between MSU (2-0) and USC (2-0), which joined the conference last season, and the league opener for the Spartans. The teams have split eight previous meetings, with the Trojans winning 30-9 in the last meeting at the Los Angeles Sports Coliseum on Sept. 29, 1978. The Spartans are 0-3 in road games at USC, 2-1 in games in East Lansing and 2-0 in bowl games, including a 17-16 win in the 1990 Sun Bowl the last time the programs met.
MSU last played a late-night West Coast game at Arizona State in 2018, a 10:45 p.m. kickoff time in Tempe that the Spartans lost, 16-13.
USC opens Big Ten play Saturday at Purdue (3:30 p.m./CBS), while MSU hosts Youngstown State (2-0) in its final nonconference game (3:30 p.m./BTN). The Spartans have a bye week after the trip to Los Angeles before heading to Nebraska on Oct. 4 (3:30 or 4 p.m./TV TBD).
The game at USC will be a homecoming for both MSU coach Jonathan Smith (Pasadena) and quarterback Aidan Chiles (Long Beach).
Contact Chris Solari: csolari@freepress.com. Follow him @chrissolari.
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