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Brian Lewerke seeks perfection and glory for Michigan State football

Free Press sports writer Chris Solari, Lansing State Journal columnist Graham Couch dissect Michigan State's game at Arizona State. Recorded Sept. 4. Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press

EAST LANSING — It was 135 degrees on Michigan State’s outdoor practice field Tuesday.

So hot it almost felt like home for Brian Lewerke.

“It still feels really hot when I go home,” he said as sweat dripped off his forehead.

That is where Lewerke is headed Saturday, when the 13th-ranked Spartans face Arizona State in Tempe, a little more than 20 minutes away from where he grew up in Phoenix.