Andrel Anthony went to Ann Arbor last Saturday expecting his team to win.
Outside of Michigan Stadium — away from the 107,000-seat venue where he planned to play college ball — the star receiver from East Lansing joined a pair of other wideouts, Xavier Worthy and Cristian Dixon, who had also committed to the Wolverines. They were there to see Michigan football take down the program Anthony had spurned over the summer.
But then something strange happened. Michigan State football, a 24½-point underdog and the victim of a depressing Week 1 defeat to Rutgers, didn’t submit.