Michigan State Football Schedule Breakdown: Sure Wins, Potential Losses, Big Ten Teams Missed

Pete Fiutak

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In the new 18-team Big Ten, it’s all about the schedules, who everyone misses and where, and when the nasty games are. You know who the biggest teams are - some get a much bigger break than others.

No game is a 100% lock in the Big Ten, and there are always surprises, but for the most part, what are the relatively certain wins on the 2024 Michigan State football schedule? What are the likely underdog games - the true 50/50 games are left alone - and which Big Ten teams does Michigan State miss?

Michigan State Football Schedule: Relatively certain Spartan wins

Florida Atlantic, Indiana, Prairie View A&M, Purdue

Michigan State Football Schedule: Relatively certain Spartan underdog games

at Michigan, Ohio State, at Oregon

Michigan State Football Schedule: Who do the Spartans miss in the Big Ten?

Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Penn State, UCLA, USC, Washington, Wisconsin

2024 Michigan State Football Schedule

Aug 31 Florida Atlantic
Sept 7 at Maryland
Sept 14 Prairie View A&M
Sept 21 at Boston College
Sept 28 Ohio State
Oct 5 at Oregon
Oct 12 OPEN DATE
Oct 19 Iowa
Oct 26 at Michigan
Nov 2 Indiana
Nov 9 OPEN DATE
Nov 16 at Illinois
Nov 23 Purdue
Nov 30 Rutgers

Pete Fiutak

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Publisher of CollegeFootballNews.com starting in 1998, Pete Fiutak was a college football part of the very start of Rivals, Scout, the FOXSports.com relaunch, Stadium/Campus Insiders, and the USA TODAY College Wire sites. 

He was the first ever on-air guest on CBS Sports Network, was a talking head for five years at Stadium, and did in-stadium TV work at the first five College Football Playoff National Championships. But all anyone really seems to care about is that he did all the player ratings for various college football and basketball video games for four years in the 2000s.