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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/byniri_returns on 2024-08-15 14:33:44+00:00.
For me it’s either 2016 or last year.
The John L Smith years were awful as well, but 2023 was just so, so bad for Michigan State. Not even counting the off-the-field shit with Tucker, MSU was pretty incompetent last year. Against Michigan, Washington, Ohio State, Penn State, and Maryland (added for emphasis), MSU went 0-5 being outscored a combined 201-19. They also blew an 18-point lead 4th quarter lead to Rutgers, lost by double digits to an Iowa team they outgained by 127 yards, gave up 200+ yards to Minnesota’s 4th string RB, and going back to Maryland, lost to them by 22 in a game where we OUTGAINED them as well. After our cupcake games the first two games of the season, the Spartans had one 200 yard passer the rest of the year. I’d argue that they were even worse than their 4-8 record indicated. This isn’t even taking into account that our archrival won the national title
I can totally see an argument for 2016 as well, going from the CFP in 2015 to 3-9 the next year, but honestly last year I think was worse. Literally the only positive I can see coming from last year is we got out of the atrocious Tucker contract and IMO made a great hire in Jonathan Smith. I think you can argue that outside of the obvious Oregon State and Washington State, no P5 team had a worse overall year than MSU.