Michigan State is a great place to go to an away game. The quite scenic campus is full of old growth hardwoods and their fall colors were vivid against a blue October sky. The campus itself is not landlocked like OSU, hence it has wide lawns and lots of boulevards around the stadium, making for lots of grass adjacent to the parking for nice tailgating. Quite frankly, I think there was more tailgating than at OSU, and the locations are every bit as nice or nicer.

I have to tell you though, Spartan Stadium is no Horseshoe. It's nice enough, but Jenny compared the exterior architecture to a concrete erector set. Our seats were fine, but I counted I think 3 ushers for the whole upper east half. And, the view was good, but this ole man didn't enjoy halftime with one restroom in the corner to serve half the upper part of the stadium. Howard Dwight Smith would particularly chuckle about the one door to that one restroom, through which probably 5000 men with bursting bladders were trying to go both in and out at the same time! We're spoiled with what we have and one only needs to go elsewhere, (or read my book) to appreciate that.