Lansing Sun

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State secured a decisive 40-0 victory over Prairie View A&M on Saturday afternoon at Spartan Stadium, witnessed by a crowd of 70,066. This marks the Spartans' first shutout win since their 52-0 triumph over Akron on September 10, 2022, and advances their season record to 3-0 for the first time since 2021.

Michigan State amassed a total of 458 yards in offense, with 270 passing yards and 188 rushing yards. Sophomore quarterback Aidan Chiles completed 12-of-19 passes for 173 yards and one touchdown while also contributing a rushing touchdown. Graduate quarterback Tommy Schuster completed eight out of ten passes for 97 yards and scored the team's final touchdown with a rush. Redshirt junior running back Nathan Carter had eight carries for 93 yards and one touchdown, while sixth-year running back Kay'ron Lynch-Adams added fifteen carries for sixty-three yards.

Defensively, redshirt senior linebacker Jordan Turner led Michigan State with seven tackles, including one sack and one-and-a-half tackles for loss. Redshirt senior defensive back Ed Woods contributed five tackles, redshirt senior linebacker Cal Haladay added four tackles with one-and-a-half tackles for loss and one sack, and sixth-year defensive lineman Khris Bogle recorded four tackles.

"Always good to win a game," said MSU head coach Jonathan Smith. "I was very pleased with the approach this week. In practice this week I thought we had very good Tuesday and Wednesday work leading into Thursday and Friday. Obviously it started on defense; those guys were lights out, making it physical."

Michigan State opened the scoring with touchdowns on its first two drives to establish a 14-0 lead in the first quarter. Chiles capped an eleven-play, sixty-yard drive with a six-yard touchdown run on MSU's opening possession. He then connected on a seventeen-yard touchdown pass to redshirt freshman Aziah Johnson in the closing seconds of the quarter.

The Spartans extended their lead to twenty-seven points by halftime with two more touchdowns in the second quarter: Nate Carter's career-long sixty-yard run at the four-minute forty-five-second mark and redshirt junior Charles Brantley's historic hundred-yard interception return just before halftime.

In the second half, Michigan State continued its dominance by scoring on three consecutive possessions. Sixth-year kicker Jonathan Kim made field goals from thirty-three yards in the third quarter and twenty-three yards early in the fourth quarter. Schuster closed out MSU's scoring with a one-yard rush late in the game.

Next up for Michigan State is an away game against Boston College on Saturday, September 21 at Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The match will be broadcasted on ACC Network at 8 p.m.