MSU’s playoff dreams damaged by dominant OSU

EAST LANSING – Michigan State fans can stop checking the College Football Playoff standings, dreaming about championships, making plans to be in Indianapolis on the first weekend of December.

A stadium full of them Saturday saw the team that will be there on Dec. 6 instead – barring an improbable collapse in the final three games of the season, it’ll be the resurgent and redeemed Ohio State Buckeyes. They engineered a dramatic momentum reversal late in the first half, torched MSU’s defense with big plays all night and rolled to a 49-37 win in the Big Ten’s alleged game of the year.

“Let’s face it,” MSU coach Mark Dantonio said after his team lost its first Big Ten game and home game since 2012, “the bottom line was, we didn’t stop them, we couldn’t stop them.” - Read more at Freep.com