Despite showing some fight, the Spartans fell 23-20 to the Golden Gophers in front of 45,339 fans at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The loss was MSU's sixth in a row, as the program has not won since taking down Youngstown State on Sept. 13.

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The Gophers' defense delivered a three-and-out to open overtime. Landing on the right side of two pass interference calls set Minnesota up for a game-winning rushing touchdown from Drake Lindsey on a bootleg rollout that was converted by mere inches to win 23-20.

Drake Lindsey scored on a 3-yard run in overtime and Minnesota denied Michigan State its first Big Ten Conference win of the season with a 23-20 victory.

Which makes the yin and yang dichotomy of Rossi moving from the coaching box to the field level in the Spartans’ 31-20 loss to U-M an interesting dynamic moving forward as he and Smith try to salvage a season gone awry and, quite likely, their own jobs in green and white.