MSU football ticket info

Big Ten Football action returns to Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan, when the Michigan State Spartans take the field for the upcoming 2006 NCAA college football season. It’s easy to be a part of some of the most exciting football games in the nation. Just pick up Michigan State Spartan football tickets from ABCTickets.com. Always in the thick of the Big Ten race, Michigan State makes a habit of putting on thrilling shows for the Spartan faithful on a weekly basis. Even with the 72,000 seats available at Spartan Stadium, Saturday in East Lansing is always a sellout event and Michigan State football tickets are hard to come by if you don’t get a hold of some well before game day.

Michigan State’s biggest conference rival is the hated Michigan Wolverines. The two teams face off every year with the winner of each game being awarded the Paul Bunyan Trophy. The Spartans are traditionally the underdog in this match up with a record of 28-65-5. The last time Michigan State beat the Wolverines for the trophy was in 2001 at Spartan Stadium. That win is marked by a controversial last-second play in which the Spartan quarterback, Jeff Smoker, threw a winning touchdown pass that the Wolverines contend took place after time had run out on the game clock. Although the play counted, the dispute led to a Big Ten rule change so that control of the game clock would be held by a game official instead of a school representative.

The Wolverines current head coach is John Smith, and he became the twenty-third head coach of the team in December of 2002. As a player, Smith was a linebacker and quarterback for Weber State University, and he has the distinction of being named by Sports Illustrated as one of Idaho’s top 100 athletes of the twentieth century, as well as having been inducted into the Idaho Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001. As of the 2005 season, Smith has compiled a record of 18-18 after three years with the team. Although 2005 was a losing year for the team with a record of 5-6, Smith’s many accolades with his previous teams are a sure sign that he can turn this program around and make the Spartans contenders for the Big Ten Title once again.

With all their history and the intense rivalries that the Spartans face every year, it is no wonder that Michigan State Spartan football tickets are among the hardest Big Ten football tickets to find.