National championship hopes will be on the line on Saturday, when the No. 7 Oregon Ducks visit the No. 5 Michigan State Spartans. This is only the sixth meeting between the two schools. Oregon enter with a slight advantage (3-2), defeating the Spartans 46-27 in 2014.
A free live stream of the contest can be found here.
Rece Davis will call Michigan State-Oregon Saturday night with Kirk Herbstreit while Chris Fowler is on US Open duty.
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) September 9, 2015
Preview
Game Time: 7:00 p.m. local time
Location: Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan
Weather: 59°F, Partly Cloudy
Odds: -14.5 Michigan State, per Bovada
Radio: Oregon (Tune In Broadcast); Michigan State (Tune In Broadcast)
#ESPNJr300 DB Jamyest Williams visiting Michigan State for the Oregon game. Going to bring in a lot of prospects pic.twitter.com/HqYGEUCxmh
— Tom VanHaaren (@TomVH) September 7, 2015
What They're Saying
Oregon head coach Mark Helfrich on his assessment of Michigan State, per Mlive.com: "[QB] Connor Cook is fantastic, and he can do everything. Their approach could be two tight [ends] and smash it, or five-wide empty and throw it. It's a huge challenge from a schematic standpoint."
Michigan St. offensive line coach Mark Staten on his team's schematics: "I think our offense has become like a miss-mosh; it's become some of this, some of that. Downhill-attack you is the style we like to put our Spartan brand on, but there are really different ideas that we've liked and we've learned that we've put into effect."
Performance To Examine
Cook struggled in Michigan St.'s 37-24 victory over Western Michigan in Week 1. The senior was 15-of-31 for 256 yards and TDs.
Despite his lack of accuracy, QB guru George Whitfield insists he is the best QB in the country.
"When you look across the country and you name top, elite quarterbacks, that 24-3 record [Cook has] means something," Whitefield said, per Mlive.com. "It means something."
It won't mean anything if Cook fails to push it to 25-3 on Saturday.
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