Post-Game Notes: Purdue
10/12/2014 12:00:00 AM | Football
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• Michigan State has won 47 of its last 60 games (.783), dating back to the beginning of the 2010 season . . . in addition, the Spartans have won 20 of their last 22 games (.909), dating back to the 2012 regular-season finale . . . only Florida State (19) has more wins than Michigan State (18) since the beginning of last season.
• Michigan State is 20-9 (.690) in Big Ten road games under MSU head coach Mark Dantonio, including a seven-game winning streak and a 14-3 record (.824) since 2010 . . . Dantonio has won at least one road game at every Big Ten stadium.
• MSU extended its winning streak in Big Ten games to 11 and its winning streak against Big Ten opponents to 12 (including 2013 Big Ten Championship Game vs. Ohio State) . . . the 11-game winning streak in Big Ten Conference play is the second longest in school history (16 straight from Oct. 2, 1965 to Oct. 21, 1967) . . . the Spartans defeated Minnesota in the 2012 Big Ten finale, went 8-0 in conference play in 2013, and are off to a 2-0 start in 2014.
• Coach Mark Dantonio moved into third place on the career wins list at Michigan State with his 69th victory at MSU; Dantonio is 69-30 (.697) as head coach of the Spartans . . . Dantonio also won his 40th Big Ten game; his .690 winning percentage (40-18) in Big Ten games ranks first at MSU (minimum 10 Big Ten games).
• The Spartans won their sixth straight game against Purdue, tying the longest winning streak against the Boilermakers in school history (won six in a row from 1985-90) . . . Dantonio is 6-0 vs. Purdue, including a 3-0 record at Ross-Ade Stadium.
• Jeremy Langford had 104 rushing yards on 13 carries (8.0 avg.); it marks his 10th straight game with at least 100 yards rushing against a Big Ten team . . . Langford is the first Big Ten player with nine consecutive regular-season conference games with more than 100 yards rushing since Penn State's Curtis Enis in 1996-97 (11) . . . it also marks Langford's 11th career 100-yard game and third straight this season (137 vs. Wyoming; 111 vs. Nebraska); his 11 100-yard rushing games rank ninth most in MSU history . . . Langford moved into 17th place all-time at Michigan State in career rushing yards with 2,000.
• Tony Lippett had seven catches for 138 yards for his fourth 100-yard game of the season; he has caught a touchdown pass in eight consecutive games after hauling in a 39-yard pass for a score in the first quarter.
• Connor Cook threw three touchdown passes and moved past Brian Hoyer into seventh place in MSU history with 36 career TD passes . . . Cook has now thrown a TD pass in 13 straight games (school record: 16) . . . Cook recorded his 12th 200-yard passing game of his career (19-of-37 for 238 yards) . . . Cook improved his record to 17-2 as the starting quarterback for MSU, including an 11-0 record against Big Ten opponents.
• With MSU leading 38-31 and Purdue facing a third-and-8 on its own 22-yard line with 1:29 remaining in the game, Darien Harris recorded his first career interception and ran it back 15 yards for his first career touchdown to ice the victory for the Spartans . . . Michigan State has now scored 20 defensive touchdowns in the Dantonio era (since the beginning of the 2007 season) . . . Harris also had six tackles, including a 2-yard tackle for loss.
• Nick Hill tied a career best with two rushing touchdowns (2 yards in the first quarter; 4 yards in the third quarter) . . . Hill finished with a season-high 72 yards on nine carries (8.0 avg.) . . . Hill leads the team through six games with five rushing touchdowns.
• Aaron Burbridge recorded his first receiving touchdown of the season with an acrobatic 13-yard TD catch in the third quarter . . . Burbridge finished the game with 35 all-purpose yards (three rushes for 14 yards; two catches for 21 yards).
• The Spartans amassed 532 yards of total offense; it marks the third time this season that MSU has collected more than 500 yards of total offense in a game this season (565 vs. Jacksonville State; 533 vs. Wyoming).
• Under Dantonio, Michigan State is 55-11 (.833) when outrushing its opponent, including a 39-4 record (.907) since 2010 . . . the Spartans are 24-3 (.889) in games when gaining 200 or more rushing yards under Dantonio . . . MSU outrushed Purdue, 294-129.
• MSU scored on its first four possessions of the game and on six of its first seven, including five touchdowns and one field goal.
