East Lansing — Apparently, there’s only one way to start a game.
And for Michigan State, that means scoring on the first play from scrimmage.
For the second straight week, the Spartans were on the scoreboard after just one play, this time when Payton Thorne connected with Jayden Reed on a 75-yard touchdown pass that gave Michigan State a 7-0 lead just 10 seconds into the game.
It came a week after Kenneth Walker III ripped off a 75-yard run to begin the game at Northwestern, and this time it ignited Michigan State, which cruised to a 42-14 victory over Youngstown State on Saturday in front a sun-drenched crowd of 70,103 at Spartan Stadium, the first time a nearly packed house watched the home team play in almost two years.