It was an unexpected pause but one anyone who has followed college football this fall should have known would come.
Michigan State football’s canceled game due to Maryland’s continuing COVID-19 outbreak did come at an opportune moment for coach Mel Tucker. Even if he and his players tried to artificially amp up the rhetoric after getting blown out 24-0 to Indiana on Nov. 14.
“Nothing changes,” senior linebacker Antjuan Simmons said after that loss. “We still have a game to play next week. We still got four more games. We got a long season ahead of us.