CLOSE Mel Tucker on Michigan State’s 52-12 loss to No. 4 Ohio State, Dec. 5, 2020: “Outings like this are not acceptable. I don’t care who we’re playing.” Detroit Free Press EAST LANSING — Down a quarterback and four touchdowns, Michigan State football finally started moving the chains late in the first half. Payton Thorne appeared to have enough yardage for a first down. Then Ohio State’s Baron Browning got his hand on the ball and ripped it away from the redshirt freshman quarterback. The Buckeyes recovered. The Spartans couldn’t. Short-handed No. 4 OSU, missing 23 players, dominated MSU from start to finish for a 52-12 victory Saturday at Spartan Stadium. Thorne was in the game because starting quarterback Rocky Lombardi left the game with an unspecified injury in the second quarter — his head hit the ground on a sack — and did not return. It is unclear how that…
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