MSU vs. Wisconsin

What a game that Michigan State vs. Wisconsin game was. Goes down as probably one of the top seven or eight games I have ever scene in football. It is not everyday you get to see an amazing team come back and win it at the last second off of a tipped ball by the opposing team. Let’s go through this game a little more in depth.

            The game started off with Wisconsin driving down the field and making the Michigan State Spartans look like a junior varsity team. They followed that up by letting Wisconsin score another seeming effortless touchdown to put them down by fourteen at the end of the first quarter.

            In the second quarter the Spartans took the attack to the Badgers. With Wisconsin on their own five-yard line, the Spartans clawed their way to the quarterback and made him make a horrible mistake. The quarterback was under pressure so he threw the ball away but it was called intentional grounding and since he was in the end zone it was also a safety. Wisconsin gave two points to the Spartans but more important was that they got possession also. The Spartans were then able to score not one touchdown, but three by the end of the half including a blocked punt for a touchdown to take a twenty-three to fourteen lead heading into the locker room.

            The Spartans picked up where they left off in the third quarter scoring another touchdown on their noble adversaries and converting on a two-point conversion. The Badgers followed that up with a field goal to end the quarter with a fourteen-point deficit.

            The Badgers came out swinging in the fourth quarter by scoring two touchdowns and tying up the game with little time on the clock. The Spartans seemed to be in trouble when it was second and twenty, but a timely catch by a State receiver made it an ideal third and four at the end of the play. With a first down and on the opponent’s forty-yard line with four seconds remaining, the Spartans went for it all with a Hail Mary pass. The pass seemed in the air for forever, but when it came down it bounced off one of State’s receiver’s helmets and into the arms of Keith Nichol, another State receiver. With the defense trying to keep him out of the end zone and Nichol twisting and turning his body he was finally brought down short of the goal line according to the officials. With so much on the line however, the officials decided to review it and it was declared a touchdown! This marked the end of Wisconsin’s undefeated season and a great victory for the Spartans.