Michigan State football: 2025 schedule and key games
Michigan State football’s schedule and key games for the 2025 season.
Michigan State football coach Jonathan Smith is pleased with the team’s progress during spring practices.The Spartans will hold a final scrimmage and practice on Saturday before breaking for the offseason.
EAST LANSING – Jonathan Smith and his Michigan State football program will be “breaking bread together” a day before Easter.
As a way to celebrate the end of spring practices. And as a communal gathering for the Spartans and their families who will get to watch them don the pads and work out one more time before the offseason arrives.
“We will get some work done on Saturday,” Smith said Thursday after the penultimate of 15 practices. “A little bit of scrimmage in, a little bit of practice in. But I really feel good about the work that we’ve gotten done over the last five weeks. Guys have stayed into it and continue to work.”
When they reconvene full-go later this summer, the target date of the Aug. 30 season-opener against Western Michigan at Spartan Stadium will be in sight and the roster should be nearly, if not completely, set for the start of Smith’s second season at the helm. Coming off a 5-7 debut in 2024, the 46-year-old Smith and his staff are feeling more comfortable after a cross-country move from Oregon State and believe the program is heading in the right direction and farther along than they were at this time in their first spring.
“I think you have a ton of guys that have gone through the season, want something different for this season, and they’re working towards it,” secondary coach Blue Adams said Thursday. “You have guys that are embracing the process. And so the feel is different that way. You got guys that are competing, you got guys that are coaching –…
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