See which five games are ranked as the most important for Michigan State football in 2025
If you had to pick one or two games Michigan State football must win this season, which ones would you choose? Well, I’ve came up with five.
Michigan State will be kicking off the 2025 season in late August so we are less than two months away from Spartans football returning to our lives. Some may say that isn’t necessarily a great thing, but all jokes aside, this is a massive year for Michigan State and the future of the program.
In preparing for the upcoming season, I have taken a look over the schedule and pegged the top five games I believe are critical for the Spartans to experience success on the field. Each of these games have implications for this specific season and getting back to a bowl game for the first time since 2021, and also for the overall future of the program under head coach Jonathan Smith.
So with all of that being said, let’s check out my ranking of the five most important games on the Spartans’ 2025 schedule, and significance they would mean for Michigan State to come out on top.
No. 5 – Penn State
When: November 15
Where: Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Mich.
Reasoning: The first one on my list is probably the game Michigan State is least likely to win on the entire schedule, but it’s included for one reason: this is a measuring stick game. If things go as expected, Penn State will come to Spartan Stadium in the midst of a Big Ten title chase and looking to lockup a spot in the College Football Playoff. With this being a home matchup, the expectation from fans should be that Michigan State is at least in the game in the second half and not getting their doors blown off by the Nittany Lions like we saw two years ago. I’m not going to say Michigan State should win this game but it should be close and certainly…
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