Has it been 10 years, since Michigan State football played for and won the Big Ten Championship? Yes, folks, it has.
Man, Spartan Nation was lucky it won three Big Ten titles during the Mark Dantonio era.
It's been pretty dang stale since then. I mean, the Spartans have only had a winning record four times since 2015. As the Spartan football team and head coach Jonathan Smith enter the 2025 season, they have to find a way to at least get the program heading in the right direction.
This drought of 10 years cannot continue to linger, much like the 20-year drought from 1990 until 2010, when the Spartans won the Big Ten, ending that drought.
But maybe that's just the way things work in East Lansing.
I mean, for the leaders of that 2015 team, they have been away for 10 years now. You're talking players like Jack Allen, Riley Bullough, and Darien Harris. With that being said, congratulations go out to Darien for landing the job with the New York Giants; that's huge.
Can Jonathan Smith get this 2025 team to a competitive level, I'm not asking for go out and win the Big Ten this year, but eight, nine wins. The work they have done to better the offensive line has to have been for something.
I think this team has a lot to prove this season. A 10-year drought, it happens, but to let it go 20 again, I don't think this program can do that. Just like the previous Rose Bowl drought, as well. It was 26 years from 1988 to 2014.
Blink and it will be almost half off that length of time since the 2014 Rose Bowl Game.
Spartan fans deserve better than having to go 10 or in some cases 20 years without competing for the Big Ten. I get it most are numb to this sport now in the transfer portal and NIL era, but we all have to have some hope still right?
Maybe I'm just stir crazy about stats. But I remember how demoralizing those droughts were. Not to mention what this one is starting to feel like.