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Final thoughts on Ohio State's loss to Michigan State: Bill Livingston (photos)

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Michigan State was clearly the better team Saturday night.

That said, there was more to the game than line of scrimmage superiority on both sides of the line by the Spartans, although that was a lot of it.

1. I really didn't think the Spartans could pull the upset off in this setting -- The Horseshoe, Senior Day, with their second-string and third-string quarterbacks playing, with all the Buckeyes' draft-ready players making a final curtain call at home.

But they did, shutting down Ohio State to an extent I frankly felt was impossible, with the help of some unbelievable playcalling.