5. Jeremy Langford vs. 12. Keith Appling

DANGFORD. That was perhaps the most commonly tweeted word on MSU Twitter during the 2013 and 2014 seasons. Jeremy Langford came out of absolutely nowhere to wrangle the starting running back job and sprint away with it. He scored 40 rushing touchdowns in his two years as the guy and has a couple of runs that will live on in MSU lore due to their championship nature. He was the ultimate closer, putting away Ohio State and Stanford with nail-in-the-coffin runs to seal huge victories.

Keith Appling might have been frustrating at times, but a lot of MSU fans look back on him fondly (as a player). A weird wrist injury crumbled Appling’s ability to shoot and threw this weird haze over his career. If you forget, he came into MSU as an absolutely lethal knock-down shooter and two years later wouldn’t shoot the ball. But he overcame that and put together a number of huge moments. The Champions Classic against Kansas during his junior season is one to remember.

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