Big Ten Power Football: Week 5 Power Rankings

8. Michigan State

Week 5 result – 24-21 loss to Indiana

Wow has Michigan State dropped in 2016. Coming into 2016 as a potential College Football Playoff team, to losing their second game of 2016. Indiana looks good, but not beat Michigan State good.

This team can’t seem to find it’s identity, and it might be because they don’t have strong point. Each week they show more and more weaknesses. Now that they’ve fallen out of the top 25, it isn’t likely that they’ll remain relevant in competing for the Big Ten championship.

No one knows what happened to this team. Maybe Connor Cook meant more to the Spartans than many people thought. Maybe this young team just isn’t ready to take on the top of the NCAA yet. Either way, Michigan State has a lot to fix moving forward.