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Michigan State football's woes aren't solved by a new schedule. Here's why

Michigan State Spartans football coach Mel Tucker speaks to the media on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, in East Lansing. Detroit Free Press

The prospect of there being no college football this season is real. But more on that later.

For now, Michigan State has a new schedule and a new opening opponent. And a marquee home game that has been changed, requiring traveling to Ann Arbor in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 1967-68.

Those alterations are just a few more complications in Mel Tucker’s debut season, one already challenged by his late hiring and a bevy of disruptions by the coronavirus pandemic.