DETROIT (AP) — Alessio Milivojevic tossed a career-high four touchdown passes and Alante Brown had a 92-yard kickoff return for a touchdown Saturday night to help Michigan State to a 38-28 victory over Maryland and snap the Spartans’ eight-game losing streak.

Milivojevic completed 27 of 39 passes for 292 yards for the Spartans (4-8 overall, 1-8 Big Ten).

“I’ve said it for weeks now, we were gonna fight every single game, every single week, to get a win,” Milivojevic said. “And, you know, we we fought a lot today, and we got that win.”

Embattled Jonathan Smith avoided becoming the first Michigan State coach to go winless in conference play for the first time since Duffy Daugherty’s 1958 team which went 0-5-1.

When asked whether he knows if he will return as coach next season, Smith said

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