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Michigan State football held off Oklahoma’s late push for Jarrett Horst

Michigan State coach Mel Tucker watches warmups before the game against Northwestern at Spartan Stadium Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020. Msu

Mel Tucker and Michigan State football added Jarrett Horst via the transfer portal this offseason, but it wasn’t an easy recruiting win.

For years now, anyone who Lincoln Riley wants, he usually gets.

That pertained to transfers, recruits and coaches but Mel Tucker and Michigan State held off a late surge from Riley and the Sooners for one of their coveted incoming transfers.

According to an interview Tucker had with the media on Thursday, Oklahoma tried to poach Jarrett Horst when he hit the transfer portal and the Sooners again made a late surge for the Arkansas State transfer.