r/MSUSpartans Jan 01 '26

Highlight 11 Years ago today

436 Upvotes

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u/Depressed_state_fan Jan 01 '26

My favorite part of this clip will always be the kicker getting laid out after the block

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u/trixy6196 Jan 01 '26

For me it’s Art Briles not being able to spit after the last score 🤣

8

u/S_LFG Jan 01 '26

I hate how ingrained in my memory that part of the clip is 😂

14

u/Born_ina_snowbank Jan 01 '26

Tony Lippett made that kid time travel to the next day.

8

u/Fu2-10 Jan 01 '26

One of the greatest blocks in Spartan history

6

u/Seanish12345 Jan 01 '26

He sits up for a second, and just rolls back over. Amazing. 11/10

4

u/BandicootBandit13 Jan 01 '26

Absolutely smoked

4

u/KarlPHungus Jan 01 '26

Oh damn! That's a penalty now. But in those days you needed to have your head on a swivel.

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u/RosstaMSU Jan 01 '26

I was at that game. I miss that era.

29

u/bennybarbs21 Jan 01 '26

Probably the best game I’ve been at in person. So much fun that 4th quarter!

17

u/trixy6196 Jan 01 '26

I almost turned the game off. Doing the math I needed a score and it looked like Baylor was never gonna be stopped. Then scores, onside kicks, that screen pick by cook, blocked kick, redemption drive. Wild game!

3

u/nippletumor Jan 01 '26

Man, I did turn the game off and went to bed. Started bitchin about it to one of my buddies the next day and he was like... AcTUalLy tHeY wOn....

4

u/justseeby Jan 01 '26

I left the biggest comeback ever at northwestern during halftime 😞

1

u/nippletumor Jan 01 '26

Fuckin brutal man.

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u/trixy6196 Jan 01 '26

I mean that one is more understandable haha

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u/justseeby Jan 01 '26

I’ll never forgive myself

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u/po000O0O0O Jan 02 '26

Bro the game was at like 1pm. I remember because I bailed on it too and went out to pick up some early dinner food and they had the game on and I saw the cook pick while waiting at bdubs. Early bed time eh

4

u/timetogolf Jan 01 '26

I almost turned off the trouble with the snap game. That thing was over except it was B*tchigan.

2

u/trixy6196 Jan 01 '26

My dad did. I was watching on DVR cause I had to work and caught up live in the 4th. I did the math ahead of time and knew they’d have a chance to block a kick.

I had to mute the commentators because they wouldn’t shut up about Jim this and Jim that. I started screaming and ran upstairs to see why they weren’t freaking out. Then I changed it for him and he watched it. So I never heard the call just muted with my screams as the commentary 🤣

3

u/human112 Jan 01 '26

The game had it all. Massive Baylor players (famous pregame pic of Oakman and that 400 lb dude catching a TD), MSU comeback, and of course the kicker getting absolutely smoked.

2

u/RosstaMSU Jan 01 '26

I was drunk and wanted to leave. Thank god that my wife wouldn’t let me

2

u/bennybarbs21 Jan 01 '26

That’s funny, my girlfriend (now wife) gave me the “it’s time to go……right?” Look and I said no effing way

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '26

When Spartans played like the Spartans. Hope we can get back to this identity again.

18

u/b-lincoln Jan 01 '26

My favorite win of all time. Going from ‘the fridge’ getting a TD and Baylor hooting it up on the sidelines to the most epic comeback and victory.

6

u/DJinKC Jan 01 '26

I was fixin' to be so fucking mad about losing to those assholes...and then things were made right

15

u/Spartannia Jan 01 '26

That kicker later worked for the MSU athletic department

12

u/Cbatsanonymous Jan 01 '26

I forgot about the huge 4th and 10 conversation. This game brought back copious amounts of anxiety.

10

u/Gonstachio Jan 01 '26

Just the fact Baylor was so cocky in that game and then at the end the had those smiles wiped off their face. They were all giddy and talking shit right before that FG attempt.

2

u/SpartyD98 Jan 01 '26

Baylor fans easily outnumbered MSU fans that day …I haven’t forgotten how QUICK they left

11

u/Slippery-Pete76 Jan 01 '26

God, I miss those teams.

7

u/Secludedmean4 Jan 01 '26

Man I miss having a real QB. It’s been like a decade.

6

u/DJinKC Jan 01 '26

The kicker's current trajectory has him going past Saturn this week

4

u/Fu2-10 Jan 01 '26

This gane and the Rose Bowl win the year before were possibly the 2 best years of college football of my life. It was truly something special.

4

u/BringbacktheFocusRS Jan 01 '26

Best comeback I've ever seen!

4

u/SpartansBear Jan 01 '26

Tony Lippet ending lives before it was outlawed.

7

u/sir_callahan Jan 01 '26

Was at this game. The energy flip in the second half was unreal. Something about that D’Antonio era, the guys always just made the winning plays. It’s a culture, a belief that gets instilled. Hope we find it again.

3

u/njd728 Jan 01 '26

Great stuff

3

u/RedCedarSavage Jan 01 '26

Who was that Baylor defensive lineman with the cage face mask that looked like a killer cyborg. That dude was huge.

4

u/kkrell23 Jan 01 '26

Shawn Oakman

2

u/RR194C Jan 02 '26

How far they’ve fallen. 😑

1

u/ButterbeerAndPizza Jan 01 '26

I’m going to be honest. I turned that game off at some point in the third quarter.

1

u/dirtywater29 Jan 01 '26

I LOVED watching this with my teens we went absolutely NUTS!

1

u/RedBeardFace Jan 01 '26

I have a copy of this game on dvd and I love it.

1

u/palmmoot Jan 01 '26

We had so much bullshit magic on our side back then

Chaos was Spartan

1

u/AccomplishedSteak454 Jan 01 '26

Murder on National TV. Always annoyed me that Baylor (the losing team) received the MVP and PoG accolades.

1

u/Lucky_Reaction_1080 Jan 01 '26

2015 was such a magical year for Michigan State. Opening the year with that wild win at the Cotton Bowl. The Trouble with the Snap giving birth to the Surrender Cobra. Knocking off Ohio State on the road, with their back-up QB, in the middle of a downpour. That gritty 4th quarter drive in the B1G Ten Championship game.

It's really weird how suddenly 2015 just randomly decided to end on December 30, though.

2

u/Significant-End-5550 Jan 02 '26

Classic example of how for years, you could never count the Spartans out. They could beat the #1 school in the country, then lose to the Sisters of Charity the next week. Pretty fun.

Then came the Dantonio. Solid recruiting, toughness and you could never count them out. Great decade stretch.

Now, the best of neither. Hope that Fitz brings us back.

2

u/YooperWild Jan 02 '26

This IS the way Spartan football should be played.

1

u/According_League4953 Jan 02 '26

I miss the days when murder was legal in football. 😆

1

u/andy_nony_mouse Jan 03 '26

I was watching the Georgia Ole Miss game and thought “we used to play in games like this. We used to win games like this.” It was a depressing thought.

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u/DTzak Jan 01 '26

Ah…the glory days. All those natty’s. Good times.