Michigan State’s Riley Bullough heads into his final collegiate season as the outspoken, long-haired face of the Spartans football program. That’s a long ways from his first couple of years on campus, when Bullough said he happily hung in the shadows while big brother Max had his moment to shine. That’s what was expected of underclassmen at the time.
Like in 2012, Riley Bullough’s freshman year, Michigan State is bracing against what many believe will be an inevitable decline despite coming off of a double-digit-win season and a top-10 finish in the polls. But these aren’t your older brother’s Spartans.