Post-Game Notes

Sept. 6, 2008

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• Michigan State improved to 8-0 all-time vs. Eastern Michigan with a 42-10 victory this afternoon before a crowd of 71,789 at Spartan Stadium...MSU is now 37-6-2 against current members of the Mid-American Conference.

• The Spartans have now won 10 straight home openers and 11 of their last 12...MSU's last loss in a home opener arrived in 1998 vs. Colorado State.

• Javon Ringer scored a career-high five touchdowns, marking the second-most rushing touchdowns by a Spartan in a single game...Blake Ezor owns the school record with six against Northwestern in 1989...Ringer scored three touchdowns in the first half...it marked Ringer's fifth-career multi-touchdown game...it also marked the second time in his career he has scored multi-touchdowns in back-to-back games (scored two rushing TDs last week at Cal; last season, scored three TDs vs. Northwestern and two vs. Indiana).

• Ringer passed Duane Goulbourne on MSU's all-time rushing list and is now sixth in MSU history with 2,977 career rushing yards.

• Ringer now has seven rushing TDs this season - he had six of all last season...he has 19 rushing TDs for his career.

• Ringer finished with 135 yards on a career-high 34 carries...his previous career high was 29 attempts vs. Indiana last season...it marked his 13th-career 100-yard rushing game, which is tied for sixth in MSU history with Eric Allen.

• Ringer finished with at least 200 all-purpose yards for the second straight game...he totaled 205 against EMU (135 rushing; 8 receiving; 62 kick return) and had 200 last week at Cal.

• Otis Wiley had 113 punt return yards, tying for the fourth-best single-game mark in Spartan history...Wiley had a 78-yard return to start the fourth quarter, leading to Ringer's fifth and final TD, marking the 10th-longest punt return in MSU history....MSU had 126 punt return yards all of last season on 31 returns...the MSU single-game record is 137 punt return yards on six returns by Derrick Mason vs. Eastern Michigan in 1996.

• Mark Dell had three receptions for 71 yards...through two games, Dell is averaging 136.5 yards per game (273 yards total)...last season, Dell had 220 receiving yards as a true freshman.

• Brian Hoyer moved past Tony Banks into eighth all-time at MSU in career passing yards...Hoyer threw for 148 yards on 8-of-12 passing...Hoyer now has 4,224 career passing yards.

• In his first career appearance, red-shirt freshman Kirk Cousins completed 3-of-4 passes for 32 yards...his first pass attempt was a 13-yard completion to Charlie Gantt...his first drive was capped by a 6-yard TD run by Ringer that put MSU up 14-7 at the 5:37 mark in the second quarter.

• Andre Anderson rushed for a career-high 75 yards and tied his career best with eight carries (9.4 avg.).

• Ashton Leggett scored his first-career TD on a 4-yard run in the fourth quarter.

• Danny Fortener matched his career high with six tackles in his first career start at free safety.

• Trevor Anderson collected his first-career sack with a 7-yard loss in the third quarter.