EAST LANSING – Wayne Matthews helped clog up the middle to make a tackle, then was flat on his back.

The medical team quickly surrounded the Michigan State linebacker while a crowd of more than 67,000 fans ringing Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum went quiet.

“I’m not 100 percent sure what it was but whatever it was, it got me pretty good,” Matthews said with a chuckle following practice on Wednesday.

The fifth-year senior can laugh now but it was a scary injury in the moment late in the second quarter of a 45-31 loss at USC on Sept. 20 . He appeared to take a shot around the head or neck area from running back Waymond Jordan while assisting on the tackle.

Matthews was down on the turf during a roughly 10-minute delay and moved his legs before he was strapped to a backboard, taken by str

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