EAST LANSING, Mich. -- The headaches were the worst part for Tyson Smith. That’s what he thought about Friday night in Michigan State’s team hotel: the headaches, all he’d been through in the last nine months and maybe making a tackle the next afternoon against Bowling Green. If he were really lucky, maybe he could make an interception.
He didn’t let his imagine run free enough to see himself sprinting 38 yards to the end zone at Spartan Stadium less than 24 hours later, celebrating his first college touchdown and turning into one of a handful of semi-viral moments of inspiration from college football’s opening weekend.