Michigan State Football: 5 overreactions from victory over Rutgers

4. Offensive line hasn’t made any improvements

This has been a common overreaction after just about every game this season. The offensive line hasn’t made much of an improvement this season, right? I’d like to argue to the contrary.

To begin the year, the Spartans were featuring a line with one senior (Brian Allen) and a handful of underclassmen with little starting experience. David Beedle was one of those exceptions, but he still didn’t have extensive experience as a starter for the Spartans.

Left tackle Cole Chewins, right tackles Jordan Reid and Luke Campbell, left guard Tyler Higby and right guards Kevin Jarvis and Beedle have performed well enough to retain their jobs in the rotation and the reason the run game hasn’t quite taken off is because the rush plays have been relatively consistently run up the middle.

The line has protected Brian Lewerke well all season, but the running lanes just aren’t there because of the lack of imaginative play-calling, for the most part. Sure, the unit has plenty of room for growth in terms of blocking for the run, but to say it hasn’t improved is asinine.