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Overlooking Central Michigan could ruin Michigan State's season again

Lansing State Journal's Graham Couch and the Detroit Free Press's Chris Solari and Shawn Windsor break down Michigan State's 35-21 win over Indiana. Graham Couch and Chris Solari and Shawn Windsor, Lansing State Journal

John Bonamego made something perfectly clear Monday.

He is a Chippewa, through and through. Always has been.

“I would say that I never had any desires to go to Michigan State,” Bonamego said during a teleconference Monday.

Bonamego, the fourth-year Central Michigan coach, graduated from Paw Paw High in 1982

They all may not have wanted to be Spartans, but it wasn’t long ago the Chippewas wanted a shot at playing them.