Preview the Nov. 1 matchup between the Minnesota Golden Gophers and Michigan State Spartans with predictions, odds, over/under, spread, betting lines and more.

Columnist Graham Couch grades MSU's football team after its performance at Minnesota — offense, defense, special teams, coaching and the bottom line.

Michigan moved to 7-2 on the season after surviving a scare against Purdue. The Wolverines held on for a 21-16 win over the Boilermakers, and while winning the

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.

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.