Michigan State Football: 2020 Big Ten All-Conference Team
Tuesday, Athlon released their projections for the best players in the Big Ten for the 2020 college football season. Their 2020 All-Big Ten teams honored players for first, second, third, and fourth all-conference squads.
Michigan State saw zero mentions for the first-team offense, defense, and specialist lists. However, five Spartans are spread out among the rest.
- LB Antjuan Simmons: Second-Team Defense
- RB Elijah Collins: Third-Team Offense
- DL Jacub Panasiuk: Third-Team Defense
- OL Kevin Jarvis: Fourth-Team Offense
- K Matt Coghlin: Fourth-Team Specialists
The list was led by Ohio State (15), Michigan 12), Iowa (11), and Penn State (11). They were the only universities with double-digit predictions for players to make the All-Big Ten teams. Michigan State had the third-fewest players selected to any of the first, second, third, or fourth-teams available. The only Big Ten schools with less were Rutgers (4) and Maryland (3).
Here are Athlon's total projections per university.
- Ohio State: 15 players selected
- Michigan: 12 players selected
- Penn State: 11 players selected
- Iowa: 11 players selected
- Purdue: 8 players selected
- Wisconsin: 8 players selected
- Illinois: 7 players selected
- Indiana: 7 players selected
- Minnesota: 7 players selected
- Nebraska: 7 players selected
- Northwestern: 7 players selected
- Michigan State: 5 players selected
- Rutgers: 4 players selected
- Maryland: 3 players selected
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