East Lansing — Mark Dantonio isn’t sure when the best time is for a team to have a bye, but the fact the Spartans will have the week off after just two games won’t be looked at as a bad thing.
Especially after Michigan had a second-week bye in 2016.
The fact remains, however, that 2-0 Michigan State will next take the field on Sept. 23 when Notre Dame visits Spartan Stadium.
“We’ve had them all over the place in the past 10 years,” Dantonio said Tuesday at his weekly news conference. “We had one year (2008) where the bye was the next to last game and I was threatened about that, but we had a chance to play for a championship that time and so we had an extra week to prepare.