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MSU’s Ron Burton ranked as one of top 10 D-Line Coaches in College Football

Longtime Michigan State defensive line coach Ron Burton is considered one of the best in the game

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Longtime Michigan State defensive line coach Ron Burton is considered one of the best in the game, according to Big Game Boomer.

Big Game Boomer — a well-known Twitter account for making college football-related rankings — pegged Burton as the No. 9 defensive line coach in the country in top 50 rankings released on Monday. Burton was listed only behind Larry Johnson of Ohio State in the Big Ten.

Check out Big Game Boomer’s complete top 50 ranking below:

Burton has been on the Michigan State staff for the past nine seasons and has been coaching for 29 years. Burton was one of only a few assistant coaches Mel Tucker kept on staff when he took over for Mark Dantonio in 2020.

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Big Game Boomer puts Notre Dame in second tier of college football

Do you agree with how the Irish are tiered?

Twitter user Big Game Boomer has decided to separate every Football Bowl Subdivision team into tiers. The very best are in the first tier, the teams slightly worse than that are in the second tier and so on. To no one’s surprise, the top tier is home to Alabama, Clemson and Ohio State. Then, he has Notre Dame as one of the teams in the second tier of college football’s highest level:

As you can see, Boomer has Notre Dame on the same level as LSU, Georgia, Oklahoma, Oregon and Boise State. Whatever order you want to put that in, it shows that in at least one person’s opinion, the Irish have one of the nine best teams in the nation. As far as the tiers themselves, he reemphasizes how the Irish have been great but not unstoppable in recent years. Perhaps in the near future, the Irish finally will be able to get over the hump it hasn’t been able to for some time now.

Guessing Notre Dame biggest liability heading into the 2021 season

This group really needs to bring it this fall

Recently the Twitter handle of Big Game Boomer released what they believe is the biggest liability for each of the Power 5 schools. In their estimation Notre Dame’s is the offensive line.

It’s hard to disagree with that, after seeing four of the five starters from last year head off to the NFL. Jarrett Patterson is the only holdover from the 2020 season and while there is still a ton of talent on the various positions on the offensive line, they’re very green. Don’t forget about getting Marshall transfer Cain Madden, the All-American only strengthens the group.

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With some talk about true freshman Rocco Spindler and Blake Fisher having a chance to start, you can see where Big Game Boomer is coming from. I don’t see it that way, in my estimation the offensive line will have some growing pains, but should be fine as the season progresses. The biggest area of concern in my mind would be the wide receivers.

The leading WR in terms of yardage, Javon McKinley is gone to the NFL. As is the touchdown leader from last year Ben Skowronek. You might be thinking about Michael Mayer, well he’s a tight end and although a great threat, not as a wide receiver.

Avery Davis is the leading returning receiver with just 24 catches for 322-yards and 2 scores. Braden Lenzy is the second leading returning receiver, he had just 7 receptions last year for under 100-yards.

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The difference is that the talent on the offense line is just green, they don’t have much experience. The same can’t be said about the wide receiver group. Multiple players will need to step up and in my eyes, this position group posses the biggest liability for Brian Kelly and the Irish this fall.

MSU vs. Northwestern listed as one of 2021’s ‘Best Friday Night Matchups’

MSU’s season-opening road trip to Northwestern is considered one of the “Best Friday Night Matchups” of the 2021 college football season.

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Michigan State’s season-opening road trip to Northwestern on Sept. 3 is considered one of the “Best Friday Night Matchups” of the 2021 college football season.

Big Game Boomer — a Twitter account known for creating college football-related rankings — revealed its top 25 Friday night games for the upcoming college football season, and the Spartans match-up vs. Northwestern cracked the list. Big Game Boomer has the Spartans’ match-up as the fifth best Friday night game this season.

Big Game Boomer has sometimes been a bit of a Twitter troll in these rankings, but it doesn’t appear that’s the case here. So it’s pretty cool to see the Spartans-Wildcats’ match-up get a little bit of recognition.

Kickoff for Michigan State-Northwestern is scheduled for 9 p.m. EDT on Sept. 3. The game will be televised on ESPN.

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