Remember waaaay back one week ago? When the SEC had returned to its old BCS bus-with-no-brakes self? Remember waaaay back three weeks ago? When the Pac-12 was going to be the only force in the college football universe with enough firepower to match that broken-down bus that was the SEC? Remember waaaay back nine months ago? When the Big 12 was going to get not one but two teams into the inaugural College Football Playoff?
And remember just before all of that, when the Big Ten was a wrecked, smoldering shell of its old self, about to be left behind by everyone to its south, west and southwest?
Well, um, yeah, welcome to Week 3.
You don’t have to take my word for it. Just take a look at the late Saturday night face of the man who’d just led Michigan State to a revenge victory over Oregon.
“In my mind, this is a stepping-stone game,” head coach Mark Dantonio said after the emotional, to-the-mat 31-28 victory, the first matchup of top-10 teams in East Lansing since the coach was a 10-year old kid, growing up south of the border in Zanesville, Ohio. “This is a game that pays dividends at the end of season. This is a game that promotes this brand and this program, and it’s exciting for everybody involved. We need to continue on.”
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