Offense: B+ (Game Specific Grade) / C (On a curve based on competition) The first half where Richmond matched MSU in almost every statistical category except 3rd down conversions and points (admittedly key stats), was NOT a good outcome for MSU when taken in context of a season full of much much stronger opponents. To put it simply, this game should have been a blowout from the first kick. Richmond could generate almost no offense in that game, and their defense played just ok. Their pre-season top 25 FCS ranking (based largely on expected defense) was exposed as potentially fraudulent after Richmond got beat by a not very good FCS team in Morgan State. Richmond came into this year with newly installed co-offensive coordinators, a new QB, and a new QB coach. While Richmond had a competitive year last year and made the FCS playoffs, the year was an anomaly for a team that has largely hovered around. This means Michigan State has 85 scholarship players while Richmond only has 63. Richmond is an FCS school while MSU is an FBS (one letter means a lot). This is not hyperbole, this is actual fact. The grade based “on a curve” is an attempt to take the performance and scale it based on the quality of the opponent.ĭetails of the Curve for this Game: The Richmond Spiders are simply not in the same category of football as Michigan State. How the Grades Work: The “Game Specific Grade” is an attempt to step back and ignore who they are playing and look at the performance through the lens of just this game. An absolutely dominant third quarter pushed the game from an uneasy feeling to a laugher, leaving the fourth quarter for garbage time. Despite amassing a 17 to 0 lead in the first half, statistically the game looked substantially closer than anyone would have expected. For the second week in a row the Spartans started very slowly. In taking on the Richmond Spiders in week 2, Michigan State ended up with a blow out win over a significantly weaker opponent.
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