Rocky to Ricky. Over and over. A star was born. A quarterback validated. And Michigan State football pulled off one of the biggest upsets in the history of the 113-game rivalry against Michigan, a 27-24 victory Saturday that Rocky Lombardi and Ricky White dominated from start to finish. White, a 6-foot-1, 175-pound true freshman from Marietta, Georgia, caught eight passes for 196 yards, the seventh-highest single-game total in MSU history, and the second-most against the Wolverines behind Plaxico Burress' 255 yards in 1999. "First, I just want to give huge credit to Rocky," White said. "He played an awesome game today, he made some great passes. All week at practice, it's been getting prepared for this game." White set an MSU freshman record, smashing the 165 yards by Cody White against Northwestern in 2017.Ricky White - stepping into the starting lineup for an injured Tre Mosley - became an unstoppable force against No. 14 Michigan's secondary. He and Lombardi stretched the field all afternoon, starting with a 30-yard touchdown that put the Spartans on the board just over four minutes into the game. "He's done a good job in practice," said first-year coach Mel Tucker, who scouted White while at Colorado and inherited him as part of Mark Dantonio's final recruiting class. "I remember him in high school. We saw him as a player and thought that he was an outstanding player. Guys that step on the field on game day, they step on the field because of what they've done in practice. And so we've seen him make plays. We were not surprised." - Lansing State Journal