College Football
Michigan State Spartans football
Across 41 Spartans football games in our records, see how results change by season, which opponents appear most often, and which final-score digits are most common.
Season-by-season results
The Michigan State Spartans haven't finished above .500 in the four seasons in our records.
Each row shows the season's record, its result sequence (green is a win, red is a loss), and points per game, newest first.
2026 2-3 5 games 18.2 Pts/game
2025 4-8 12 games 24.6 Pts/game
2024 5-7 12 games 19.3 Pts/game
2023 4-8 12 games 15.9 Pts/game
Game records begin in 2023; final-score digit tracking begins with the 2024 season.
Final-score digit patterns
0 is the Michigan State Spartans' most common final digit: 8 of 29 finals.
Each tracked final contributes one digit: the last digit of the team's score. The Michigan State Spartans have landed on 0 in 8 of the 29 finals our digit records cover.
0
8 of 29 finals
02 1
2 2
5 3
2 4
1 5
2 6
5 7
1 8
1 9
Drawn from 2024–26, the three seasons our digit records cover, 29 games.
Opponent records 
Terrapins 2-1 
Hoosiers 1-2 
Hawkeyes 1-2 
Cornhuskers 1-2 
Wolverines 0-3 
Eagles 1-1 
Golden Gophers 0-2 
Buckeyes 0-2
Twenty-six opponents, most-played first.
The table covers 26 opponents since 2023, ordered by meetings. Each bar shows the Michigan State Spartans' win rate in that series; each row opens the full head-to-head.
Terrapins 2-1 Hoosiers 1-2 Hawkeyes 1-2 Cornhuskers 1-2 Wolverines 0-3 Eagles 1-1 Golden Gophers 0-2 Buckeyes 0-2 Eighteen more opponents in our records. Every series has a head-to-head page, however short it runs.
This week
They play Saturday.
Week 6 Spartans vs Illinois Fighting Illini
Sat, Oct 10 · 12:30 PM PDT
Spartans vs Illinois Fighting Illini Sat, Oct 10 · 12:30 PM PDT