MSU losing streak reaches 5 games with loss to Northwestern

Michigan State was going to win a game. It was this one against Northwestern. There were plenty of storylines. Spartans head coach Pat Fitzgerald going up against the program where he played and coached. Wildcats QB Aiden Childs returning to East Lansing with something to prove. And MSU's need to snap a four-game slide. Which one would become the focus? To East Lansing we go, where we saw an inspired Michigan State squad take command. It was a 14-13 game when the Spartans went on the attack. Alessio Milivojevic deep to Krishan McCray for a 53-yard touchdown. Suddenly, MSU was up eight at 21-13. But Aiden Childs wanted to have his turn, and he got it here. The one-yard plunge making it 21-19. The Wildcat two-point try was good, so it was tied at 21. Now, the Wildcats botched a fourth-down play, so the Spartans got the ball back and got into field goal range for the game winner. But the try from Liam Boyd was blocked. MSU coming up empty, and with a minute left on the clock, that gave Childs new life, where he made the most of it. With no timeouts, Childs hit Griffin Wild for 12 yards. Then he got him again for 17 more. and with the clock ticking, Caleb Como Lafay took it up the middle, putting Northwestern in perfect position for a 34-yard field goal, and it was good. Aiden Childs returns to Spartan Stadium and leaves MSU fans reeling as Northwestern comes back to win it. 24-21 the final, MSU's losing skid now reaching five games. We get paid to win and we're not winning, so it starts and ends with me. And we've got to look at all the reasons why things happened the way that they did and just get back to work and roll our sleeves up. there's a lot of fight in this group and you know a lot of guys getting their first opportunity and i'm proud of them that's why i said to him after the game for a lot of the guys their first opportunity happened today and they'll be better on tuesday you know going through the experiences that they had and we'll coach you know what out of two weeks in a row now we've ended up on the short end of games that you know we've got to coach better to be able to get over the hump to win those games and um you know we'll take a look at a lot of plays today that were missed opportunities in all three phases but again i don't want to discredit northwestern they made a bunch of big plays and especially the ones down the stretch that you needed to make in a one-score Big Ten game.