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Michigan State 23, Purdue 13: Reality Bites

Talent can do so much in college football. Alabama would be favored by double digits over all but a handful of teams because they have a wealth of raw talent. Ohio State rules the Big Ten year in and year out because it has more raw talent than everyone else. As we showed last week, talent is not the end-all be-all when it comes to college football. Today we found out that it does help a lot, however.

Michigan State entered today with Rocky Lombardi making his first career start. He was without many of his offensive linemen and without his top two receivers.