All Signs Point Toward Mel Tucker’s Eventual Dismissal From Michigan State
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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
By Pat Forde Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (playoff highlight videos from 2015–20 sold separately in Tuscaloosa and Clemson): FIRST QUARTER: THE MESS IN EAST LANSINGOn Oct. 30, 2021, Mel Tucker (1) and Michigan State were on top of the World. The Spartans defeated hated rival Michigan 37–33 in a wildly entertaining game in a raucous Spartan Stadium, improving to 8–0 on the season and rising to No. 3 in the AP poll. Less than three weeks later, with Tucker considered a hot commodity on the coaching market, the school stunned the industry by giving him a …