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Marquel Dismuke picked off Payton Thorne on the game’s fourth play, the Michigan State QB’s first interception of the season and the first interception of Dismuke’s career. Michigan State burned the Blackshirts with back-to-back 35-yard pass plays on consecutive drives — one on a flea flicker — and a 38-yard completion to Connor Heyward featured two Huskers getting trucked. Again, Nebraska did more than enough here to win the game.

You’ve seen it all before. The only way Michigan State was going to stay in the game in the second half was with special teams, and Nebraska was happy to oblige by allowing Jaylen Reed to return a punt 62 yards untouched for the tying touchdown with 3:47 left. William Przystup had a 7-yard punt as he and Daniel Cerni rotated. Yes, Nebraska rotated punters. Michigan State, meanwhile, averaged 58.8 yards on six punts as NU barely tried to field the ball.

Another comedy of errors for the offensive line, which false-started four times in the first half. On defense, Deontre Thomas came free for a sack on Thorne that would have forced an MSU punt, then inexplicably picked the Spartan quarterback up and threw him to the ground, drawing a penalty and keeping the MSU drive alive. Nebraska wasn’t penalized after halftime.



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