Michigan State Spartans football coach Mel Tucker is heading into his 3rd job in three years. Tucker was previously the head football coach for one season at Colorado, where he guided the Buffaloes to a 5-7 record in year one. Prior to Colorado, Tucker was the defensive coordinator at Georgia, and the assistant head coach at Alabama, after a decade long career in the NFL.
Tucker, an Ohio native, played defensive back at Wisconsin from 1990-1994, and was a graduate assistant at Michigan State from 1997-1998 to start his coaching career. He was a national championship winning coach while at Ohio State in 2002, and again in 2015 in his lone season with the Crimson Tide.