Some foolish person said in the preview of tonight’s pivotal contest that this iteration of the Michigan State Spartans would be a different one than Penn State played in the two teams’ first contest. That same foolish person made a comment in the first half, sometime around Penn State being up 17 or so, that “this game was over.” That same foolish person ended up being right about the outcome, but not in the way he expected.
This film-noir of a Spartans’ season may have a different kind of ending than the archetypal confusion and reductio ad absurdum that most noirs do, where the hero ends the film having failed to complete their goal and confused about the world they thought they understood.