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Preview the Nov. 1 matchup between the Minnesota Golden Gophers and Michigan State Spartans with predictions, odds, over/under, spread, betting lines and more.
Minnesota's 23-20 overtime win over Michigan State wasn't the prettiest game, but it counts just as much to their 2025 record as a blowout victory. Let's take a look at the Gophers' top five performers from their win over the Spartans.
That stick-to-itiveness helped Milivojevic direct a second-half comeback with 17 straight points, including a 71-yard touchdown to Rodney Bullard Jr. in the third quarter on a rollout throw on the run.
Michigan State football will try to stop a five-game losing streak on the road at Minnesota on Saturday, Nov. 1. Our scouting report and prediction.
Winless in conference play, the Spartans face a Golden Gophers team looking to rebound from a lopsided loss to Iowa last week. Here's how to watch for free.
There’s no trophy on the line here, just the potential to put the Spartans’ metaphorical backs up against the bowl-berth wall: Lose here, and Smith and MSU will need wins in their final three — Penn State, Iowa and Maryland (in Detroit, no less) — to return to a bowl for the first time since 2021.
After Northern Michigan scored just before halftime, Ferris State roared out of the break with another string of four scoring drives, the last three ending on touchdown runs of 1, 16 and yards by Chase Carter, to make it 63-21 with 9:08 to play.
Purdue went three-and-out in their drive after Underwood's INT, then the Boilermakers botched the punt as the Wolverines took over at Purdue's 32-yard line. Five plays later, Michigan was in the end zone again as Jordan Marshall scored his second touchdown of the day.
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.