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Can Michigan State football improve offense vs. Maryland? Will they even get the chance?

Looking back at Michigan State football’s 24-0 home loss to No. 10 Indiana and looking ahead to the Spartans’ road game Saturday at Maryland.

3 things we learned

Ugly numbers: Mark Dantonio was shut out twice as MSU head coach, by Alabama in the 2015 College Football Playoff and last season at Wisconsin. Mel Tucker’s Spartans shutout home loss to the Hoosiers was the program’s first at Spartan Stadium since losing 31-0 to Michigan in 1985, George Perles' third season. The Spartans' 66-point margin in back-to-back defeats is the program's worst two-game stretch since MSU lost by 68 combined points in the last game of the George Perles era in 1994 to Penn State and Nick Saban’s first game the next year.