Michigan State Football: 5 bold predictions for the month of October

Oct 3, 2015; East Lansing, MI, USA; Michigan State Spartans quarterback Connor Cook (18) attempts to throw the ball against the Purdue Boilermakers during the 1st quarter of a game at Spartan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mike Carter-USA TODAY Sports

3. Cook passes for 1,200 yards, 10 TDs

It has been an awfully slow start to the 2015 season for Michigan State’s star quarterback, but it’s because he hasn’t necessarily thrown a lot of passes. In fact, he’s currently on pace to throw just 322 passes this season which is 43 less than he has in any of his previous two years.

On the plus-side, though, he is completing the highest percentage of passes this year than he has in his entire career at about 60 percent.

If Cook can keep that completion rate up while ramping up his production, there is no reason he can’t pass for 1,200 yards and 10-plus touchdowns this month alone. Through the first month of the year, he passed for just 838 yards with nine touchdowns and an interception.

So far this month, he has 139 yards and a touchdown. He will need to accumulate 1,061 yards and nine more touchdowns over the next three games to reach that mark, but I think the offense will ask him to do that and he will deliver. There will be times when the run game struggles because the two freshmen aren’t in sync with the offensive line. That’s when Cook comes in to play.

Cook will hit the 300-yard mark against Rutgers and Michigan while nearing 400 against a lackluster Indiana defense.

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