Seidel: Cook will carry MSU past Oregon

Find out what Mark Dantonio demands of MSU's players and coaches in a game with hype like Saturday's against Oregon has. Chris Solari/Lansing State Journal

EAST LANSING – On Saturday morning, Connor Cook will stay off social media.

He won't watch ESPN's "College GameDay" show, which will be in East Lansing before the Spartans play Oregon in a battle of top 10 teams. He won't talk to anyone. He won't text anyone. And he will try to stay by himself, listening to a Pandora music channel that plays John Mayer, the Dave Matthews Band and Coldplay.

"I try to tune everything out," he said. "I'm kind of by myself, trying to stay calm, trying to stay focused."

That's his routine and there's no reason to…