For the Penn State Nittany Lions, their entire season comes down to a Saturday showdown with the Ohio State Buckeyes. That’s the beautiful thing about college football, it usually comes down to a game or two that determines if you have a great season, a good one, or for some teams, a bad one. A win at the Horseshoe would …
When I looked at the Penn State schedule many months ago, before a snap was taken, a whiteout was scheduled and Tommy Stevens was still the quarterback, one game jumped out. At that time, I determined five games I thought would give the Nittany Lions fits. Maryland (obviously I’m an idiot and I understand if you don’t want to read …
When Penn State released its depth chart for the Michigan game, the running back position read like this… Journey Brown Ricky Slade Noah Cain Devyn Ford James Franklin and his staff have maintained the status quo when it comes to their running backs, but there is a clear and away option who they evidently consider their number one and he …
Penn State coach James Franklin is a master of keeping his team focused on the task at hand. At the beginning of each new week, he sends a Tweet repeating the name of the upcoming opponent, as if to say this is all we are focused on for this week. It has seemed to work up until this point as …
Coming off an early-season bye week, Penn State travels to College Park, Maryland for their first road test of the season. The Nittany Lions are 3-0 on the year with victories over Idaho, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh. There were some shaky moments in the first three games for Penn State, but ultimately the defense has been able to come up big, …
Following a poor first half, Penn State rounded into form to defeat Buffalo 45-13 last Saturday. This weekend, the Nittany Lions will look to attack early and often when they host their in-state rival Pitt Panthers at noon. This will be the 100th overall meeting between the two teams. Penn State leads 52-43-4. Pitt is 1-1 on the year with …
After those evil Nittany Lions humiliated poor Idaho last weekend, they will look to do the exact same thing to Buffalo on Saturday night. Say what you will about running up the score, but Penn State did what they needed to do, and they did it by halftime. Idaho was paid a reported $1.45 million to come and play in …
There is no secret to the weapon that Penn State wide receiver and return man KJ Hamler is. The sophomore speedster will be a massive key to the success of Penn State on offense and special teams. Hamler had a sensational freshman campaign at receiver, being responsible for many big plays, but at the same time, he was inconsistent. As …
Penn State is one of four teams rumored to participate in a “Hard Knocks” style series coming this year. The Nittany Lions are said to be accompanied by Alabama, Washington State and Arizona State as the four programs to be highlighted. The proposed HBO series will spend one week with each team as they prepare for game day. Penn State …
Allow me to be clear, these are dark house breakout candidates for the Nittany Lions. This is not the Sean Clifford, Justin Shorter, Micah Parsons list of players who I think are most likely to show their stuff in a big, bad way this season. These are the guys who are buried a little further down the depth chart but …
