The final game of the Penn State football season will be an anticlimactic drubbing of Rutgers. On the post-Thanksgiving Saturday, overstuffed and underwhelmed Penn State fans will be back at their tailgates by halftime. Much like in every Big 10 game they’ve played in this season, Rutgers will be dominated every which way. Rutgers is currently 2-9 on the season …
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 …
This isn’t going to be fun. Like most Penn State fans, it took me quite a few days to face the realization that Penn State was defeated by Minnesota and their hopes at the college football playoff birth are hanging like a child’s loose baby tooth. It was painful to have to go back and look at where the screw …
In a surprising twist, the College Football Playoff selection committee ranked Penn State number 4 in their first rankings of the season on Tuesday night. Big 10 foe Ohio State was ranked first followed by LSU and Alabama. Ohio State jumping into first place only shines a brighter light on the November 23rd matchup between the Nittany Lions and Buckeyes, …
Penn State is coming off a monstrous win against Iowa last weekend, but there’s no doubt Saturday’s White Out versus Michigan has been circled on calendars for months. The Nittany Lions are significant favorites in a game that will once again come down to defense. The Wolverines, under new offensive coordinator and former Penn State receivers coach Josh Gattis, has …
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 …
Penn State football will begin their 2019 campaign on Saturday afternoon versus Idaho at Beaver Stadium. If you were looking for a romantic lede about the beginning of college football season, then you have come to the wrong place. It was only one year ago that Nittany Nation sat with their hearts in their stomachs as Appalachian State nearly pulled …
