Michigan State Football 247 (2024)

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Who is Michigan State's rival? ›

Michigan State's arch-rivals, the Michigan Wolverines, continue to be in the headlines for the wrong reasons. Not for the upcoming season in which they will look to defend a national title with a new head coach, Sherrone Moore.

Michigan leads the series with an overall record of 73–38–5, though the series has seen several ebbs and flows during which one team or the other has experienced periods of dominance. In the earliest years of the rivalry from 1898 to 1933, Michigan was the dominant program with a record of 23–2–3.

Since leading Michigan State to a College Football Playoff berth in 2015, Dantonio compiled a 24–23 (15–18 in conference games) record.

MSU's football team was consensus national champion in 1952, the (UPI) Coaches' national champion in 1965, and named national champion by different ratings groups in 1951, 1955, 1957, and 1966.

Ohio State. The granddaddy of all college football rivalries is the University of Michigan vs. Ohio State University. These two midwestern Big Ten powerhouses have been at it since 1897, with the Wolverines and Buckeyes meeting for "The Game" around Thanksgiving weekend for over a century.

However, the University of Michigan claims a total of 11 national championships. According to the NCAA, the Wolverines have titles in 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1918, 1923, 1933, 1948 and 1997. Michigan also claims titles in 1932 and 1947, the latter of which saw the Wolverines win the Rose Bowl as part of a 10-0 season.

The biggest margin of victory Michigan vs. Michigan State has ever seen is 119-0, the second-ever meeting between the two teams in 1902.

Alabama leads the all-time series with Michigan 3-2, with two wins apiece in bowl games. Alabama won the 2020 Citrus Bowl and 1997 Outback Bowl. Michigan won the 2000 Orange Bowl and the 1988 Hall of Fame Bowl.

Has Ohio State ever beat Michigan? ›

Ohio State's 1942 national champions defeated Michigan 21-7, but the Buckeyes managed only one more series win during the forties as UM compiled a 6-2-2 advantage. Michigan opened the 1950s with an upset victory in the "Snow Bowl" and defeated Woody Hayes' in his first UM-OSU game in 1951.

The Blue Devils won the last meeting, 85-76, in the second round of the 2022 NCAA Tournament in Greenville, S.C. Michigan State beat Duke, 75-69, in 2020 at Cameron Indoor Stadium in the Champions Classic.

Michigan State has won the most Big Ten Tournament Championships with six. Below is a list of schools that have won the Big Ten Tournament over the years: Michigan State - 6 (1999, 2000, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2019)

Michigan has played in 12 different bowl games during its history, winning 21 bowl games, which is the 17th-highest total among FBS schools.

The University of Iowa and Indiana University were added in 1899 and Ohio State in 1912. Chicago terminated its football program in 1939 and officially withdrew from the conference in 1946. The conference did not again include 10 teams until Michigan State was added in 1949.

Notre Dame and Michigan State will renew their highly competitive rivalry in the 2026 and 2027 seasons. In the two-game, home-and-home series announced this week, the Fighting Irish will host the Spartans on Sept. 19, 2026.

Last 10 Years. Over the last 10 years, Ohio State has dominated the rivalry – posting a 7-3 record with seven straight wins from 2013 to 2019. However, Michigan has been victorious in the past three meetings, handing the Buckeyes a double-digit loss in 2021 and 2022.

The Duke–Michigan rivalry is fueled by the fact that both institutions strive to be premier academic institutions with solid reputations for producing scholars and student athletes rather than just athletic powerhouses. Duke and Michigan have played one another in men's basketball 30 times.