EAST LANSING, Mich. – They celebrated Saturday night like they won a championship that they expected to win when all of this began.

They carried their coach on their shoulders when it was over. They raised a clunky trophy and posed for photos with it. They banged lockers in the bowels of Spartan Stadium.

All that after Penn State’s 28-10 victory over hapless Michigan State for the Land Grant Trophy in a game that shouldn’t have been as hard as it looked.

Who could blame them?

They had just endured the longest 63 days of their athletic careers, through loss after loss after loss after loss after loss after loss. Six in a row, five by a total of 16 points.

Were they relieved? It was on their faces.

“Yeah,” defensive end Dani Dennis-Sutton said, “it just feels good not to be on a losing

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