Throughout their all-time series, Michigan State has played a spoiler role for Ohio State’s national ambitions. The No. 14 Buckeyes are still in the Playoff hunt, but the No. 8 Spartans are the ones with higher expectations this time around. (8 p.m. ET Saturday, ABC.) Michigan State has been pretty good at wrecking Ohio State’s plans through the years. In Duffy Daugherty’s final season as the Spartans’ coach, a 3-4-1 MSU team took down 1972’s undefeated Ohio State, 19-12, in East Lansing. Two years later, Dennis Stolz’s 4-3-1 team beat the undefeated, top-ranked Buckeyes, 16-13, with a finish former players still debate 40 years later. It was the Buckeyes’ only regular season loss in each year. In 1998, young Nick Saban took his 4-4 Michigan State squad to the Horseshoe to face John Cooper’s dominant, top-ranked Buckeyes. The Spartans left town with a stunning, 28-24 win, one that kept Ohio State out of the BCS’ first title game…
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