EAST LANSING — Mark Dantonio’s first inclination after watching the film of Michigan State’s loss at Arizona State: Get back on the field and correct the mistakes.

It will have to be in practice for now.

The 24th-ranked Spartans must wait an extra week for their next game. That’s thanks to a bye week that brings a chance for reflection on a close home win against Utah State and Saturday’s 16-13 loss to the Sun Devils.

And a chance to fix things.

“We are all very upset about this,” Dantonio said Tuesday during his weekly news conference, “because you feel like one got taken away from us that I thought we were in control of — somewhat in control of, not totally. … When you have these type of situations, and we've been in them before, they can go one direction. Either people get pulled apart or they get brought together.

“It's my feeling that things like this forge you working together, forges unity, solidarity, perseverance. And probably the most important thing, it forces action which, we need to take action.”

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MSU (1-1) sits idle this weekend before traveling to Indiana to face the Hoosiers on Sept. 22 (7:30 p.m./Big Ten Network).

The bye week arrives at a good time for the health of the Spartans, who are banged up on both sides of the ball and now on special teams with the injury to punter Jake Hartbarger. It also allows them to go back to the lab and have a week’s worth of revisiting what they studied during preseason camp and work on what they have not yet mastered.

But it also comes after MSU’s defense gave up 13 fourth-quarter points, including a game-winning field goal as time expired to close a 13-play, 4-minute, 55-second Arizona State drive. And also after the Spartans’ offense scored just one touchdown and left upward of 12 points off the scoreboard with red-zone inefficiency and an interception in the end zone.

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Dantonio has emphasized the problems are not the fault of “one particular group” and extend beyond the offensive line’s blocking problems and the defense’s inability to prevent pass yardage.

“There’s no pointing fingers on this team,” junior linebacker Joe Bachie said early Sunday morning. “It’s a team effort.”

During Dantonio’s 12 seasons, MSU is 71-16 in nonconference games, which includes bowls and Big Ten title games. The Spartans are 6-3 after a non-league regular-season loss and have only been perfect in nonconference play during three of Dantonio’s years as head coach (2007, 2010, 2015).

“You've got to get back in the ring and you've got to get back in there and do what you're supposed to do and change the results,” Dantonio said. “If you feel sorry for yourself, you're going to be chasing bad times. But you get up off the mat and you go. …

“You need to understand how to play through a little bit of the pain, too. That's all a part of this. These are all life experiences that our players get. Some you're going to win. Some you're going to lose.”

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Dantonio said his assistants would be recruiting this week along with working on the plan for the Big Ten opener at Indiana, which will be the Spartans’ third straight night game to open the season.

But they are doing so with the knowledge that one loss does not need to derail their entire season.

“Everybody wants to talk about whether we get into the playoffs or being in the Big Ten Championship Game or winning a championship,” Dantonio said. “But before you can do any of those things — in the past, we've stumbled our feet a little bit coming out of the blocks and regained ourselves and we've played well. That's what I'm anticipating, and that's what I expect and that's our players' expectations.”

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