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Cover 3 College Football

Summer School: Michigan State Needs To Make A Bowl Game

Cover 3 College Football

CBS Sports

Sports, Football

4.5 • 4.1K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 10 June 2025

ā±ļø 18 minutes

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Summary

Bud Elliott sits down with Spartan Tailgate’s Stephen Brooks to preview Michigan State’s 2025 season.Ā 



(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:01:00) - Vibe Heading Into 2025Ā 

(00:02:55) - Offensive ChangesĀ Ā 

(00:05:30) - RunningbacksĀ 

(00:08:30) - Offensive LineĀ Ā 

(00:10:55) - Defensive Players To KnowĀ 

(00:12:30) - LinebackersĀ Ā 

(00:13:15) - Defensive LineĀ 

(00:14:00) - Player To Know

(00:15:25) - 2025 Expectations



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0:00.0

This schedule really shapes up for a playoff run with a 12 team playouts.

0:04.6

Areas that you need to get from experience, which is just, hey, I need to make quicker decisions.

0:09.8

How do you define success for this team?

0:11.4

National Championship.

0:14.9

What's going on, y'all?

0:16.0

But Elliott here of the cover three college ball podcast.

0:18.3

This is my summer school series.

0:19.6

And today, one of my absolute favorite guests, that stephen brooks of spartan tailgate dude you just nail it every year

0:26.2

giving us just the straight truth on michigan state good bad whatever uh it it's always good to see you

0:32.7

how you been yeah good to see you too man i love doing this um I guess I've had a little success sort of forecasting that has not translated to any other areas of my life, whether it's lottery or, you know, blackjacket. So it's only this. All my good luck and vibes go into summer school about Elliot. And I'm happy to, to, you know, convey these powers

0:54.7

once a year with you. And absolutely, always good to talk to you, man. So Michigan State in year

0:59.5

one under Jonathan Smith, it didn't really go, certainly not quite as hope. Maybe, you know,

1:05.4

reasonably went kind of as forecasted, especially as they lost both, both defensive tackles to the portal there.

1:12.2

Shoot, at least one was spring window, right? So, I mean, that was really kind of a blow.

1:16.4

Both for spring window. Okay. So if you lose, if you lose two million bucks in detackles in the

1:20.9

spring window, that's probably going to be difficult for any team to overcome. And it was,

1:25.5

what's the general vibe out out of east lansing right now

1:28.7

uh kind of calm waters calm seas you know and uh in some sense you know you could say maybe

1:36.0

there's some comfort in that but after the way last year went that you just described and

1:40.2

sort of the initial anybody you get a new staff there's an initial boost of wind there you know

1:45.4

lifts your wings and gets you going and it's kind of fizzled out here now so now folks are like well

1:50.5

where is this all heading and there's not a lot of you know juice there's not a lot of rocking in the water

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