Matt Charboneau, The Detroit News
East Lansing — There aren’t many people around the Michigan State program that will say so, but the 2-0 start to the 2017 season has a far different feeling than the one a year ago.
With everything that happened with the Spartans program over the final 10 games of the season and through the winter and spring, Michigan State was a team desperate to start playing games. They said it at the start of preseason camp and it was evident leading up to the season-opener — the 3-9 finish to 2016 and the off-field woes were in the past.