In the earliest years of the rivalry from 1898 to 1933, Michigan was the dominant program with a record of 23–2–3. Michigan leads the series with an overall record of 72–38–5, though the series has seen several ebbs and flows during which one team or the other has experienced periods of dominance. ![]() The winner of each year's game receives the Paul Bunyan – Governor of Michigan Trophy, a four-foot wooden statue of a lumberjack that was first presented in 1953 to commemorate Michigan State's beginning football competition as a member of the Big Ten Conference. The game has now been played uninterrupted, every year since 1945. The teams first played in 1898 and have met 114 times. The Michigan–Michigan State football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the University of Michigan Wolverines and the Michigan State University Spartans.
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