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Michigan State 25, Wisconsin 24. Wisconsin scored first, never trailed, outgained the Spartans by more than 100 yards with a 256-yard rushing advantage and led 24-13 with just over eight minutes to go. With 1:19 to go, the Badgers led by two with MSU needing to drive the length of the field from its own 17. They still led with the clock winding under 20 seconds and the timeout-less Spartans trying to hustle their field goal unit into place on fourth down. Right down to the closing seconds, Bret Bielema had his team's second straight upset win in hand.

Why did Bielema then call an unfathomable timeout to give Bret Swenson and his blockers time to compose themselves for the 44-yard sickle into his crew-cutted skull? There is no decent explanation, but that was only the last in a string of misfortune down the stretch. There was also, immediately preceding Swenson's kick, the wide open 20 and 32-yard passes allowed by the Badger defense to set it up; just before that, Wisconsin's offense was hit with three penalties in four plays, one of them negating an icing first down run inside the Spartan 10, that backed the Badgers out of scoring range and forced a punt from the MSU 41 instead. On the Spartans' previous drive, Swenson buried a 50-yard field goal to cut the Badger lead to two. That immediately followed Wisconsin's third three-and-out in four possessions. You can trace the narrow path of defeat backward from the point Wisconsin expanded its lead to 24-13, and every step had to go exactly as it did to give Michigan State a chance.

So maybe Bielema's just unlucky, to an extent. But he's also 1-5 in the Big Ten with blown 19 and 11-point leads against teams from the state of Michigan and an awful home blowout at the hands of Penn State. This is exactly the way Michigan State used to lose games in the star-crossed, schizophrenic John L. Smith era, and it means Wisconsin is on the verge of missing a bowl game for the first time since 2001 and only the second time since the program's breakthrough season in 1993. I guess you really can spend 59 minutes in control and end up worse.