Sportfan2017 said:

It is Wednesday at 5:35 PM. I am still trying to find out who is today's loser in the weekly Bo Bassett Sweepstakes. I have chewed off all my fingernails and.......if I was more limber.....would have chewed off my toenails as well. I have the shakes and sweats of a crack addict. PLEASE help me before I start smoking my belly button lint. Peace

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LemonEars said:

So the nitwits at ESPN produced their list of the 25 current top players in college football. See link. They ranked Abdul Carter as number 22. They didn't rank Ty Warren!! The only TE ranked was the tight end from fricken Bowling Green. What a joke!

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Obliviax said:

great point. If we can beat Wisconsin, the pressure is all on tOSU. two losses and they are in trouble. If we win, we are almost assured of being in the B1G championship game.

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Obliviax said:

Agree. However, I think PSU's defensive game plan was to pressure USC's QB. he didn't perform well under pressure against Minny. Lincoln anticipated this and put together a game plan designed to exploit the areas behind the DE and OLB. So it made our DE's look really bad but they were just doing what they were supposed to be doing. Just my opinion, of course.

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WEAREPSU_LI said:

Why would Koll do that? Such a dumb, immature move.

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baircub1! said:

Of course on the other side.. all the pressure is on Ohio State.. with the amount of $$ they have spent on NIL and what they picked up in the portal.. anything short of a Natty would be a failure… can you imagine if he loses to Michigan again …wow…

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SLion said:

Their RB is Oklahoma transfer who was somewhat productive for 1 year (500 yards rushing) before transferring to UW. He had 198 on 24 carries against RU. He is compact 5'9" about 218. He is probably like kid from WVU White that we bottled up. They lost QB Van Dyke and Locke has little experience after transfer from Miss St. He does not frighten me. It really comes down to line play. Our DL has to stop run and we have to tackle. If we force them to throw then I really can't see this being very close, maybe 10 point win at worst. We are not Purdue or RU.

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tboyer said:

I think so too. Ohio State almost won and weren't nearly playing their A game, wasn't nearly playing the way they will be at the end of the year. Just Burks by himself getting burned for 14 points -- he's a great player and that won't happen again. Howard will be a much better QB with a little more experience. The Ohio State D-line is incredibly athletic but they were overpursuing and out of position -- that will get fixed.

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SLion said:

Their RB is Oklahoma transfer who was somewhat productive for 1 year (500 yards rushing) before transferring to UW. He had 198 on 24 carries against RU. He is compact 5'9" about 218. He is probably like kid from WVU White that we bottled up. They lost QB Van Dyke and Locke has little experience after transfer from Miss St. He does not frighten me. It really comes down to line play. Our DL has to stop run and we have to tackle. If we force them to throw then I really can't see this being very close, maybe 10 point win at worst. We are not Purdue or RU.

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africamurphy said:

The afterglow of Saturday is finally fading a bit, and like most of you, I'm analyzing our chances after the bye and beyond. And history tells us to be afraid of PSU's performance in this very position.

2017--Lose heartbreaker in Columbus. Hardly drop in the polls, but we go to a less talented #24 MSU team the next week, endure an ungodly storm delay, and fritter the game away. Most talented Franklin team wasted.

2018--Lose heartbreaker to OSU in Happy Valley. Get a bye. Come out flat after a bye week against unranked MSU team and lose again. No more top 10 ranking that season for us...

2019--8-0 and ranked #3 in the country. Coming off bye week, we travel to #17 Minnesota and lay an egg.

2021--start a solid 5-0 and ranked #4. Travel to #3 Iowa and lose a heartbreaker. Bye week...and come home and lose the worst game in PSU history, 9OT against a terrible Illinois team.

Three AWFUL performances that wasted our potential for the season coming right after a bye week...and all four seasons saw us lose to teams we should have beaten. I hope Franklin has learned from these trials and is determined to keep his players sharp physically and mentally because this road game to Wisconsin is by far our biggest TRAP game of the season

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• Wiscy WMU a W at 28-14. Nothing to be proud about.
• Wisconsin beats South Dakota, 27-13. Again, a good college but not in the same division as the B1G
• W gets beat by Alabama at home 42 - 10. AL runs for 181 and passes for 226. They have two turnovers.
• W gets beat at USC 38-21 after leading at halftime 21-10. USC ends up with 469 total yards, 161 rushing and 308 passing. W has 106 and 180 respectively. SC has THREE turnovers to W's two.
• They kill Purdue 52 - 6 with 589 total yards, 361 passing and 228 rushing. They throw 2 Ints but get 2 fumbles back.
• They beat Rutgers at NJ 42 - 7. This is probably their most impressive W. They rush for over 300 yards and pass for 240. However, they turn the ball over twice to Rutgers 1.

tboyer said:

I've only been able to see extended highlights but the Wisconsin win against Rutgers wasn't as impressive as it appears. Rutgers lost a lot of players from last year, and has lost 3 or 4 key players to injry. Their D-line couldn't get pressure on the backfield at all, the Wisky QB (who has a nice arm) could just stand back there and wait for people to get open, or he could hand off to a running back who had 10-foot-wide holes to run through.

Wisconsin won't have nearly the speed that USC had at wideout and in the secondary. They're a good team, obviously much improved from the last couple of years. That stadium is loud. PSU needs to keep improving. The bye week should help giving PSU a chance to get healthy, fix some things, and let Kotelnicki install a few more plays. Funny how so often PSU struggles after the bye week though. Hope that won't be the case next week.

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