Folks, the Michigan fanbase is officially broken. All it took was one Michigan State win over a mediocre Michigan team to break Wolverine fans, but man, it’s been glorious to watch play out.
Obviously the Michigan State win on Saturday night was a fun watch unless you’re a big fan of offense and shootouts but it’s been followed up by an absolute Michigan fanbase meltdown. It’s hard to say what’s been more fun to watch, but they’ve been equally satisfying.
The win ended a five-year drought for the Spartans in the rivalry and it’s been so long since Michigan State won last that Michigan fans have completely forgotten how to act.
In fact, Message Board Geniuses found one of the biggest meltdown message boards that Michigan has and picked out an absolute gem to share on social media. Their fans (well, one in particular) are lobbying for Michigan to “stop scheduling” Michigan State — as if that’s even a possibility considering it’s a protected Big Ten opponent.
#Michigan just needs to stop scheduling #MichiganState. pic.twitter.com/6nyrenazMP
— Message Board Geniuses (@BoardGeniuses) November 8, 2026
Yes, let’s cancel a rivalry game because you can’t handle losing and when you do (more times than not over the past two decades), you’re salty because Michigan State has bragging rights and they let you know about it. It’s almost like that’s what happens in rivalry games. These are the same people that probably wanted to stop scheduling Ohio State when the Buckeyes dominated for 15 years.
This is giving off “stop the count” energy. They had it so good for so long, but now that Michigan is a bad football team and it lost to Michigan State, it wants to take the ball and go home.
This is truly a pathetic mindset.
Michigan State fans would never
This is now the second time in the past five years that a faction of Michigan fans have lobbied for the termination of this rivalry game against Michigan State, following that tunnel incident back in 2022. Then there was a scuffle in 2024 that had more Michigan fans on board, but they were awfully silent in 2023 and 2025 when the Wolverines dominated.
They can’t handle the “lose-lose” of playing Michigan State, especially when the Wolverines actually lose. They don’t see an upside of playing their “second-biggest rival” which is sad because rivalry games are all about trash talk and bragging rights.
They can’t handle being on the losing side of things.
Michigan fans are proving to be soft in the wake of yet another upset loss to Michigan State when the Wolverines were double-digit favorites.
These people wouldn’t last a day as Spartan fans.
Can’t beat Michigan State and can’t handle losing to them? Just stop playing them. That’s the Michigan way.
Next year’s game in East Lansing should be fun.
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