EAST LANSING, Mich. -- By the time Michigan State plays at Notre Dame, the Spartans will have had two weeks to prepare for the test.It looks like theyll need it.No. 12 Michigan State must improve after a lackluster, season-opening 28-13 win against Furman to beat the Fighting Irish Sept. 17 on the road.The Spartans, though, did do enough to keep their ranking Tuesday in The Associated Press college football poll after avoiding an upset to the Southern Conference team.After the football game, you wish you wouldve won going away a little bit easier, Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio said. But the reality of the situation, everybody comes in with a plan. Congratulate Furman for that. We made some mistakes penalty-wise and turnover-wise that kept the game close.The Spartans were on defense, leading by just eight, early in the fourth quarter when Tyler OConnor threw an interception in his second career start. They got the ball right back with a pick of their own and OConnor later sealed the win with a touchdown pass with 4:55 left.Michigan State had two turnovers, forced only one turnover, and had 10 penalties for 120 yards to extend a lot of Furmans drives Friday night.Dantonio left Spartan Stadium unhappy.The next day, he felt a little better.On Saturday as Im watching all these other games, Dantonio said, and Im seeing all these close games, you start to get an understanding that they all count one as coach (George) Perles would always tell me and that you go onto the next thing. But were 1-0 right now. Well count that. And, well take this week to get ready and then to look forward to Notre Dame next week.Notre Dame was ranked No. 10 when it lost at Texas 50-47 in two overtimes Sunday night, a game Dantonio watched live on TV and scouted the next day.The Irish dropped to No. 18 in the AP poll and will likely have a chance to bounce back at home Saturday against Nevada before hosting Michigan State the following week.Its crucial that we get better because we obviously have a lot of areas that we need to improve, OConnor said Tuesday night after a full-padded practice. Usually teams make their greatest improvement from Week 1 to Week 2. We get a chance to make that improvement with an extra week in between. Its different. We were actually talking about how strange it is to open on a Friday night and then have two full weeks off between games.The extra time will allow the Spartans to spend a lot of time studying what Notre Dame did against Texas, which shot up to No. 11 in the AP poll. 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LONDON -- Referees will be allowed to get help from video replays at the Club World Cup in Japan in the first full live in-game trial of the technology that could transform soccer.Referees could halt games to review footage of game-changing decisions on pitch-side monitors or just rely on information being fed by Video Assistant Referees (VARs) watching broadcast feeds away from the field, officials said Wednesday.Since experiments with replays were approved by soccers lawmakers in March, FIFA said semi-live trials in games have taken place with some information being transmitted to referees by VARs.But on the eve of the Club World Cup opener between Japanese side Kashima Antlers and New Zealands Auckland City, FIFA said Thursdays game and the rest of the Club World Cup through Dec. 18 would be used for an important piece of history.It is the latest sign of FIFA belatedly embracing technology, four years after the Club World Cup saw the first use of systems to detect whether the ball has crossed the line for a goal.Its important to remember that we are entering somewhat unchartered territory here, given that we are going live for the first time, said Marco van Basten, the former Ajax and Milan forward who was hired as FIFAs chief officer for technical development in September.Ultimately, these tests should prove invaluable in terms of determining whether the processes are sound or whether any further refinements are needed.The VARs in a video operations room will only give information to the main referee to help correct any game-changing decisions, the International Football Association Board, the games lawmaking body, said. These involve four situations: goals being scored, penalties being awarded, players being sent off and cases of mistaken identity.In a significant development that will be new for many viewers, thhe main referee may decide to review footage directly on a pitch-side monitor -- particularly for subjective decisions, as opposed to factual ones where he can rely solely on the information provided by the VAR, IFAB said in a statement.dddddddddddd The philosophy underlying the experiments is not to achieve 100 percent accuracy for all decisions, as this would destroy the essential flow and emotions of football.The aim is to achieve `minimum interference, maximum benefit, with the technology only being used for the defined match-changing situations and any serious missed incidents. In these cases, the question a VAR will consider is not `was the decision correct? but `was the decision clearly wrong?Referees still retain the authority to take the make the final judgment. Managers and players will not be allowed to appeal to referees to review an incident.Live tests are set to be expanded globally in 2017 with a decision anticipated by the following year on VARs becoming a permanent feature in soccer. FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who has observed recent off-line trials with VARs at Italy games, wants video replays in use at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.The progress FIFA has made on this project, especially around educating referees and ensuring all technical requirements are met, has been impressive, IFAB technical director David Elleray said.Hawk-Eye, which provided the goal-line technology at Euro 2016, is being used by FIFA at the Club World Cup for the replays experiments.The Club World Cup also includes Champions League winner Real Madrid and Copa Libertadores champion Atletico Nacional from Colombia.---Rob Harris is at www.twitter.com/RobHarris and www.facebook.com/RobHarrisReports ' ' '