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Football's spring game preview: Players, position battles to watch

MSU football is back.

Kind of.

This Saturday at 5 p.m. is MSU’s third annual Green-White spring game, and Spartan fans’ first opportunity to the 2018 team.

The format of the game is offense vs. defense, with scoring based on whether the offense scores or not, which is different from the team draft format two years ago.

“I think we get more out of it from a team standpoint when we look at film and build on the things there,” head coach Mark Dantonio said before practice Tuesday. “So we’ll play it in that confined type of way we did last year.