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Michigan State football needs a short-term memory against Minnesota's run-first offense

EAST LANSING — Mel Tucker said watching the tape of Michigan State football’s performance Saturday provided “exactly what we thought we’d see.”

Very little of it good. Especially on defense.

“It was embarrassing,” senior safety Kendell Brooks said Tuesday. “We got a lot of things we need to clean up.”

There isn’t any time for the Spartans to dwell or overanalyze what went wrong in their 39-28 defeat at Washington. MSU went right back to work to prepare for a visit from Minnesota on Saturday to open Big Ten play.

The mistakes from last week become more costly if the Spartans (2-1) repeat them this week against the Gophers, who arrive with a 3-0 record and the current front-runner to win the West Division.