My gut feeling is this is the type of offense that our D craves. Do what you can to send a message early that Ringer will not do as he pleases, and watch the panic set in. I understand that Dantonio rules the roost now, and we can't plan on the inevitable Johnelle meltdown, but this still seems more of a 'line-em up and hit-em', straight forward game that doesn't make our team overthink things.
At the same time, I also realize it took one helluva game by Ted Ginn a few years back to come up with a win here, but we still have that type of gamebreaker on our offense, in more than one spot. I think
OSU sends a message early, and to some of your dismay, punishes the MSU offense and wins a low scoring game. So damn ugly its pretty.