Dantonio on rankings: ‘If you win, good things happen’

Michigan State’s Marks share a similar take on the first College Football Playoff rankings — let’s see what happens.

“It’s a starting point I think and it’s just like pretty much how every poll has been the last number of years,” MSU coach Mark Dantonio said on SiriusXM radio Wednesday of his team’s initial No. 8 ranking by the CFP selection committee. “You look at it and say ‘That’s where we’re at,’ and you try and move forward. But I’m a realist and understand that if you win, good things happen, and if you don’t win you’re gonna slide backward in whatever you do — whether it’s for our Big Ten championship race, which to me is the most critical because that can springboard you to other things. If you don’t get there then, I’m not saying we’re not going anyway, but if you don’t get to there then the big-picture thing really doesn’t mean anything.” - Read more at Freep.com