Mark Dantonio and his Michigan State Spartans don’t care for your best laid plans, college football. They offer no quarter to the prevailing trend. They take no narrative prisoners. For the past three seasons, Dantonio and his henchmen have been on a path of destruction, riding through their schedule leaving a trail of gutted and pillaged storylines in their wake.
"We surprise a lot of people," said Spartan center Jack Allen, who has the beard and empty eyes to match the conqueror metaphor, "and make a lot of people look foolish."
Michigan State made fools of many who were attempting to map out a blueprint of the Big Ten’s season finale again this past weekend, especially those who switched from pencils to stone tablets (yours truly among them), writing off the Spartans when quarterback Connor Cook didn’t take the field as the starter against No.