EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Taysom Hill guided Brigham Young through the third quarter, and Jamaal Williams took over in the fourth.Williams ran for 163 yards and two touchdowns, and BYU beat Michigan State 31-14 on Saturday, sending the Spartans to their third straight loss. Hill ran for a touchdown and threw for another in the second half.Im definitely not surprised and I dont think anybody on our team is surprised, Hill said. We knew we were very capable of playing the way that we did and being a good football team. But now that we did that, we knew that we were capable of it and its given us a lot of confidence moving forward and well continue to build off of it.The Cougars (3-3) largely shut down the Spartans (2-3) after Michigan State scored a touchdown on its first drive. BYU trailed 7-3 at halftime but scored touchdowns on all four of its second-half possessions -- not including its final drive, which consisted only of kneel-downs.Hills 4-yard touchdown pass to Colby Pearson put the Cougars ahead, and he then added a 12-yard scoring run early in the fourth quarter.Michigan State has lost three in a row for the first time since early in the 2009 season. The Spartans pulled starting quarterback Tyler OConnor in the fourth quarter and replaced him with Damion Terry. Michigan State began to move the ball on Terrys first drive, but an interception by Michael Davis ended that possession.Spartans coach Mark Dantonio said he didnt blame OConnor for the loss, but he did not commit to any quarterback as the starter going forward.If youre not productive and youve got seven points on the board, then youve got to make a change for the sake of change, Dantonio said. I dont think he was playing that badly.Williams, who rushed for 286 yards in a win over Toledo the previous week, added an 8-yard touchdown run to make it 24-7. After Terry scored on a 1-yard sneak, Williams broke free for a 62-yard run on BYUs ensuing drive. His 1-yard TD run made it 31-14.BYU had 78 offensive plays to Michigan States 53.TAKEAWAYSBYU: For the first time all season, the Cougars played in a blowout -- and they were on the right side of it. They also have two-point wins over Arizona and Toledo, as well as three-point losses to UCLA and West Virginia and a one-point loss to Utah.Having all those close games earlier paid off this week, coach Kalani Sitake said. Having our guys keep fighting and keep believing in what we are doingMICHIGAN STATE: Things have gone from bad to worse for the Spartans, who were already in trouble after losing to Wisconsin and Indiana. With games against Michigan and Ohio State still to come, Michigan State needs to snap out of this slump or it cant even be assured of going to a bowl.As I told our football team after the game, I believe this program has been built on a good, solid foundation. Its taken nine years to do that, Dantonio said. The ride up the mountains very difficult at times, and that ride down sometimes is very quick.BOGGED DOWNMichigan State drove 72 yards in 15 plays on its first possession, taking a 7-0 lead on an 8-yard touchdown run by Gerald Holmes. The Spartans managed only 31 yards total on their next five drives before OConnor was pulled.Its 10 guys doing things right, not 11, OConnor said. And its someone different every time, I think, and its just overall chemistry.KEEPING IT GOINGPart of the reason BYU had such a big advantage in total plays was because the Cougars went 10 of 16 on third down. 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Its an acceptance of a lack of confidence in the original squad and in Ben Duckett (who has already opened in Test cricket) and Gary Ballance (who spent much of his Test career at No. 3) in particular. In retrospect, it was a mistake for England to take Ballance to India if they had decided after the Bangladesh segment of the tour not to pick him. They had the opportunity to change the squad, they failed to take it and have struggled with a lack of batting options.One of the victims of that imbalance has been Moeen Ali. While he might well have benefited from some stability - most batsmen do - he has been shunted up and down the order to the point where his role has changed almost by the match. In his 35 Tests, he has batted everywhere in the top nine; a panacea for Englands failings, but one that comes at its own cost.Its hard to argue with the selection of Jennings, though. He scored more runs than anyone else (1,548) in Division One in 2016 and, while few of them were against spin, he did make a fourth-innings century against a Warwickshire attack including Jeetan Patel (arguably the best spinner in English domestic cricket).He is well-organised, patient and, perhaps crucially, brought up with more than a hint of the South African culture that seems so popular with key figures in English cricket; more of that later. Its probably not ideal that he is another left-hander - England may well have four in their top six against two fine offspinners - but ideal left this tour a while ago.The selection of Liam Dawson is more contentious. He claimed only 20 Championship wickets in 2016 and they cost 43.65 each. Nor was that an aberration: in 2015 he claimed 22 at 38.63. He is respected as a defensive spinner, a decent batsman and a good fielder, but it is unlikely his selection has plunged the India camp into a state of fear. He simply doesnt take enough wickets and, if his main role is as a bowler, that is quite an issue.Few would claim Dawson is the best left-arm spinner in county cricket. But equally few would have made the same claim about Ansari or Samit Patel, who fulfilled the role this time last year. The truth is, England have a shallow talent pool and they arent after the best specialist: they are after a left-arm option who can bat, field and will be low-maintenance on and off the pitch. They have assessed Dawson as a member of the limited-overs squads and decided they like his character and range of skills.With those parameters, he may prove a useful selection. He will not buckle, even if India attack him; he will be a reliable fielder, even of England are out there for five sessions; he will not be intimidated with the bat, even if he is asked to save a match. But even iff he does tie up an end with his fairly flat, fairly quick spin - and that will not be easy against this India batting line-up - it is not entirely obvious who will be attacking at the other end.ddddddddddddBesides, for a team that talks of its positivity and aggression, it seems odd to opt for a bowler whose strength is not wicket-taking but bowling maidens.Its not especially unusual to pick players on a hunch rather than on statistics, though. The selection in the Mohali Test of Jos Buttler, who had played only one first-class game in the previous 12-months, could only be justified on the basis of potential and, in the past, much the same might have been said about David Gower, Marcus Trescothick and Michael Vaughan. It sends a less than encouraging message to those involved in county cricket, but that is nothing new.You have to feel for Somersets Jack Leach. Having taken 65 Championship wickets at an average of 21.87 in 2016, albeit benefiting from Tauntons spin-friendly wickets, he would be justified in feeling somewhat hard done-by as he comes to term with this latest rejection. Anyone watching county cricket last season would be hard placed to name a better left-arm spinner available to England.But it seems the selectors remain unsure how he would cope with the glare of international cricket. Chris Rogers, his Somerset captain this year, suggested Leach emotionally had a bit of a way to go before he was ready and it seems the experience of Simon Kerrigan, who wilted in the spotlight of the Oval Ashes Test of 2013, continues to weigh heavily on the team managements minds. Leach is 25, though, and coped well with the expectation of a Somerset side pushing for their first Championship title on pitches where he was supposed to do the bulk of the damage. The selectors may well be doing his strength of mind a disservice.There may also be an issue here with Trevor Bayliss knowledge - or lack of knowledge - of county cricket. He never played it, has never coached in it and, through no fault of his own, hardly has the time to watch it. As a result, he does not know who the best players are and he has not had the opportunity to build up relationships with coaches, umpires and players in the domestic game who might have helped him. Instead, he remains heavily reliant upon Andy Flower - who is not officially a selector - who watches a lot of cricket and works with the best developing players. It is Flower who is managing the Lions team in the UAE and Flower who told Jennings of his selection.You wonder if he told Bayliss, too. For it is hard to avoid the suspicion that both these selections owe much to his influence. The tough simplicity of Jennings and the combative all-round skills of Dawson are both characteristics Flower always seemed to admire in his players; arguably more so than flair and specialist skills. None of this is necessarily a bad thing - quite the opposite, a man with Flowers knowledge and passion can only be an asset - but it might prove slightly at odds with Bayliss apparently bolder, more positive approach. Nearly three years since he stepped down as head coach, Flower power is still very much alive in English cricket. Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping Stitched NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL T-shirts Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Youth NFL Jerseys Wholesale ' ' '