It’s exhausting just listening to MSU players talk about this week’s bowl practices – sounds like Damion Terry and Tyler O’Connor are basically throwing bombs every other play or so as they alternate between taking second-team offense reps and scout-team reps. Those two are combining to emulate Baylor’s Bryce Petty. It’s the most they can do for this team until one of them succeeds Connor Cook in 2016.

MSU is going as high-tempo as possible to emulate the Bears, and it’s obvious the coaching staff is going to rotate defensive players liberally in the Cotton Bowl, after watching the regulars get gassed late in the Sept. 6 loss at Oregon. The game, less than two weeks away now, is the focus. But bowl practices also provide a little “showtime.” - Read more at Freep.com