Michigan St. QB Houser to enter transfer portal

Blake Baumgartner, ESPN Personnel WriterNov 27, 2023, 03:53 PM ET Michigan State redshirt freshman quarterback Katin Houser is going to go into the transfer portal once it opens on Dec. 4, he told ESPN’s Pete Thamel.Houser, who played in 11 games and started Michigan State’s last seven games this season, will have three years of eligibility remaining.He supplanted redshirt junior Noah Kim as the Spartans’beginning quarterback versus Rutgers on Oct. 14 and finished with 1,132 passing backyards with six touchdowns and five interceptions.Editor’s Picks The 6-foot, 215-pound Houser was an unranked four-star quarterback out of St. John Bosco High School(California). En route to finishing 4-8 this season, Michigan State’s offense struggled strongly. Its offense tallied 15.9 points per game (last in the Big

10 ), averaged 288.5 overall lawns per game(13th in the Big 10)and its passing offense just averaged 200.0 backyards a game( 10th in the Big 10). Kim and Sam Leavitt, a true freshman, are the 2 remaining quarterbacks on the roster for recently installed coach Jonathan Smith.Smith was formally hired far from Oregon State on Saturday,

where he went 34-35 in six seasons at his alma mater and went a combined 25-13 in his last three seasons in Corvallis.Smith, a former college quarterback who led

the Beavers to a program-best 11-1 record in 2000– consisting of a 41-9 rout of Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl– is understood for his work with quarterbacks and will be seeking to revitalize an offense that scored

just 191 points this season.