EAST LANSING – Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio gave his take this week on Monday’s national title game between Ohio State and Oregon — the only teams to beat his 11-2 Spartans this season — and he also said he sees something familiar about the Buckeyes.

“I felt last year’s team really paralleled a little bit Ohio State’s team right now,” Dantonio said of his 2013 team that went 13-1 and won the Rose Bowl. “They were a football team that had their doubters early in the season and they gained momentum and they gained ground as they moved through the process. And coming out the back end, I’m not sure who could have beaten us last year, I’m really not, because we were playing at an extremely high confidence level and we had a lot of good players — as evidenced by 10 guys, whether they were drafted or not, going into the NFL and then what we’re having this year. So we had a lot of good football players. So the confidence, we were moving forward, we were gaining ground.” - Read more at Freep.com