Michigan State football: Expert sees Spartans winning national title under Mel Tucker

An expert believes that Michigan State football winning a national title under Mel Tucker isn’t out of the realm of possibility.

Recruiting at the level that Mel Tucker has been through two years, Michigan State football is in a good spot as a program. The Spartans went from a dying program in 2018 and 2019 to one of the rising stars in the sport.

Tucker utilized the transfer portal to help improve the roster almost instantaneously and he went from 2-5 in his first season to 11-2 in 2021 with a Peach Bowl win.

The Spartans have gone from 40-50s in national team recruiting rankings in the latter stages of Mark Dantonio as well as the first year of Tucker to No. 21 in the 2022 class and already No. 8 in the class of 2023. Michigan State is showing that it can recruit with the nation’s elite programs and if this continues, there’s no way Tucker doesn’t put the Spartans in a position to win it all.

The thought of Michigan State winning a national title might seem wild considering where the program was just a couple of years ago, but CBS Sports and 247Sports college football expert Josh Pate believes that Tucker can do just that.

Pate brings up good points about a program like Clemson being in a similar position and now being one of college football’s elite. If Dabo can turn that program around drastically, so can Tucker at MSU.

All he thinks Michigan State really needs is an elite quarterback to kind of turn that page. Payton Thorne is a really good quarterback and Katin Houser has the potential to be elite, but maybe adding someone like Dante Moore in the 2023 class could help get the program from New Year’s Six good to College Football Playoff level.

Michigan State winning a national title in the next decade would not be a shock to even some of the top experts and analysts. The Tucker-generated momentum is real.