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What a difference a day makes.

A Michigan man who recently won nearly $800,000 in the state’s Fantasy 5 lottery daily drawing also won $100 the previous day playing the same game, missing the jackpot by one number. 

The man, who chose to remain anonymous, won the July 27 Fantasy 5 jackpot from the Michigan Lottery, according to an Aug. 8 news release on the lottery’s website. 

His winning numbers of 2-5-17-21-30 netted him the jackpot of $795,905. The day before, he matched four numbers to win $100. 

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“I always buy Fantasy 5 tickets if the jackpot is over $250,000,” said the man, who lives in Macomb County. “I usually buy my tickets in-store, but the night of the drawing I realized I’d forgotten to buy some, so I logged onto MichiganLottery.com and bought two.” 

One of those tickets turned out to be the big winner, but the man said he initially did not know how much. 

“After the drawing, I saw an email from the lottery that said I had won $1 in the drawing. I thought that was all I’d won, until another email came through telling me to log into my account to claim my prize,” he told the lottery. 

After logging on, the man saw that he had actually won the jackpot. 

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“My first thought was that it was a scam,” he said. “Now that I am at the lottery office claiming my prize, it’s starting to hit me that this is real.” 

The man’s jackpot win was only the latest in what had been a lucky week of drawings, he said. 

A man won nearly $800,000 the day after he missed the jackpot by one number.  (iStock / iStock)

The day before, he had matched four out of the five numbers, winning the game’s second prize of $100.

“What’s crazy is the night before I matched four out of five numbers on my Fantasy 5 ticket and thought, ‘I was so close!’” he said.

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“I was excited to win $100 but bummed that I was one number off a large jackpot prize.”

The next night, he won the jackpot, something he “never could have imagined.” 

The man (not pictured) told the Michigan Lottery he plans on investing his winnings. (iStock / iStock)

The man said that he plans to invest his winnings. 

Fantasy 5 is drawn daily at 7:29 p.m., according to the lottery’s website. Each ticket costs $1, and for an additional dollar, players can add multipliers and earn second chances to win.

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The jackpot resets to $100,000 after each jackpot win. 

Michigan State’s football team is headed in a new direction, as Coach Jonathan Smith was hired to return the Spartans to national prominence. While Coach Smith likely has a difficult season ahead of him, he has started to improve Michigan State’s roster through the transfer portal and recruiting trail. His ability to successfully recruit gives Michigan State a fighting chance of making it to a bowl game this season. 

Coach Smith hopes to move Michigan State back up the college football ranks over the next few years. Michigan State fans hope Coach Smith can efficiently improve the team.

However, Stephen Brooks of 247Sports believes Michigan State’s fanbase has concerns as Coach Smith enters his first season at the helm in East Lansing. 

“Probably the idea that, in this new landscape, MSU has a ceiling of simply reaching the playoff but never winning it,” Brooks said. “One could argue that was true in the four-team model, though MSU’s 2013-15 run serves as evidence the Spartans were on the doorstep. The highs of the [Mark] Dantonio era showed what was possible in East Lansing, and I do detect an underlying concern that the Spartans will never reach those heights again.”

Brooks noted that the most significant questions surrounding Michigan State’s football program revolve around whether the football program and athletic department are ready to transition to a new age of collegiate athletics. College sports, especially college football, are now a player’s market. 

“Will they spend enough? Will they recruit well enough? Is Smith the guy to do it? For a young coach, Smith’s resume is impressive, but he’s also not a proven winner at the highest level,” Brooks said. “MSU fans, after a taste of greatness and especially after the mostly lukewarm decade since, are afraid the best they’ll ever be is a good program, not a great one.”

Generally, the best players in college football go to the highest bidder. College football programs that refuse to adjust to the direction college football has taken have begun to fall off the national stage. Conversely, the ability to pay players has undoubtedly given schools that have not been as successful as they’d like the opportunity to improve quickly.

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