The 2016 season's largest margin: Michigan State 49, Rutgers 0. A 49-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2016 — The Correction
2016 is a losing-side chapter for Michigan State. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Tyler O'ConnorQB1,970 passing yards
- Brian LewerkeQB381 passing yards
- LJ ScottRB994 rushing yards
- Gerald HolmesRB431 rushing yards
- R.J. SheltonWR789 receiving yards
- Donnie CorleyWR453 receiving yards
- Josiah PriceTE387 receiving yards
- Chris FreyLB96 tackles
- Montae NicholsonS86 tackles
- Riley BulloughLB76 tackles
- Demetrius CooperDE2.5 sacks
- Raequan WilliamsDT2 sacks
Season leaders, 2016.
The season's deepest loss: Michigan State 12, Penn State 45. A 33-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Go Green"
2016 sits in Michigan State's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.