Michigan State Runs past Eastern Michigan 35-7
If you owned Camryn Edwards this week, you got 28.7 points out of a running back who also lost a fumble. That tells you how the afternoon went for Michigan State: 21 carries, 152 yards and two short touchdowns from him, and the Spartans still had room to hand it to Jaziun Patterson for a seven-yard score late.
Michigan State won 35-7 and never trailed, which is the plain version. It was 7-0 on an 18-yard pass from Alessio Milivojevic to Fredrick Moore in the first quarter, then 14-0 when Edwards punched in a one-yarder. Eastern Michigan got one back with Noah Kim's four-yard run with 1:50 left in the half, and that was the last time it scored. The second half belonged to the home team: Edwards again from two yards out, then a 38-yard Milivojevic pass to Charles Taplin, and Patterson to close it.
The numbers are lopsided in a very particular way. Michigan State ran 45 times for 258 yards and threw for 214 more, 472 total against 219 for the Eagles (118 passing, 101 rushing). The Spartans sacked Eastern Michigan four times; the Eagles got to the quarterback twice. Each team lost one fumble, so nobody got a turnover gift to explain this one away.
That puts Michigan State at 2-0 and Eastern Michigan at 1-2. Kim did what he could (16 of 26 for 118 yards, plus the lone touchdown on the ground), but two sacks and 101 rushing yards on 26 carries do not stretch far.
For fantasy, Milivojevic is the quiet one worth a look. Two touchdown passes and 20.2 points is his best week of the year, and he is sitting on 417 passing yards through two games. Taplin, in his first game of the season, turned three catches into 15.5.