Also what are the weird liquor laws?
It's been 10 years since I've been there, so they might have caught up to the rest of the world (like Kansas), but the rules were all over the place. Restaurants couldn't serve booze past a certain time (maybe 11 p.m.?) even though they could stay open past then, still serve food, etc. The times that the liquor stores were open/closed changed by day of the week. No booze sales on Sundays. The best part - at one point (and this still may be true), the booze rules were different on weekday football games (as in if MSU plays on a Thursday - when booze sales normally stop at X time - they change to Saturday rules so that sales hours were longer).
Bottom line - stock up and plan on drinking in your hotel a lot vs. relying on the "bar" scene (which is microscopic compared to most college towns).