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LSJ columnist Graham Couch and Free Press sports writer Chris Solari debate how much to take from MSU's offensve outburst vs. WMU, Sept. 7, 2019. Chris Solari and Graham Couch, Detroit Free Press

EAST LANSING — Michigan State football’s program has long been associated with the 2006 film "300." Even going so far as to invite the star of the movie, Gerard Butler, to campus, with the Spartan nickname correlating with the subject of the film.

But it may have competition now, after wide receivers coach Don Treadwell showed his group "Braveheart" a few days before the No.