EAST LANSING — For three quarters, Michigan State football once again found itself in a winnable game.

Until it wasn’t. For the seventh time in the past two months.

Penn State – mired in its own six-game losing streak and with an interim coach – put on a fourth-quarter masterclass in ball-control offense Saturday, Nov. 15. The Nittany Lions ran the ball 12 straight times and gnawed more than nine minutes off the clock, scored, then squelched the Spartans for a 28-14 victory that looked more lopsided than it actually was for much of the game.

But that still resulted in another loss – the seventh straight – for coach Jonathan Smith to close another tumultuous week in a program he is struggling to resuscitate.

“I think they're about fighting back and they're continuing to grind,

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