Joe Rexrode

Detroit Free Press

Michigan State will open its football season on a Friday night for a sixth straight year, announcing today that its 2016 season opener against Furman has been moved from Sept. 3 to Sept. 2.

That's the Friday of Labor Day weekend, as has become tradition for MSU. Athletic director Mark Hollis has said in the past that it allows fans to attend the game and still get away for a long weekend. MSU is 5-0 in its previous Friday openers, including last season at Western Michigan.

There's not yet time nor TV information for the game, which will be MSU's sixth and likely last against an FCS team, now that the Big Ten is discouraging its schools from scheduling such games.