EAST LANSING — Michigan State football has opened 3-0 in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 2006-2007.

Beyond that, the Spartans scored 40 points in back-to-back games for the first time since 2017.

And yet, Michigan State knows that its performance in a 41-24 victory against FCS Youngstown State wasn’t quite where it hoped to be.

“3-0, we’ll obviously take that. It’s kind of what I told the team, though, we got more to us,” coach Jonathan Smith said. “Credit to Youngstown State, I thought some schematics gave a couple issues especially on defense.”

“We’re going to go back to work, similar like we’re doing each week. Going to digest this tape and, look, we know what’s coming in regards to this conference, starting conference play next week. The road trip, the team we’re pl

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