Sometime shortly after 11 p.m. last Saturday night, the mood started to change in East Lansing. Inside Harper’s brewpub, on the edge of the downtown area, the 500-plus Michigan State fans had come to the consensus that this was it.
Having cheered as much as three field goals and a steady diet of light beers would allow, they were ready for a reason to get rowdy. When freshman running back LJ Scott crashed through the Iowa line for six yards to start the drive there were still more than nine minutes left in the game, but the cheers erupted anyway.