PROS:
1. Tyler Warren - not a ton to say here, just a historic performance that won the Mackey Award today. Sensational!
2. Drew Allar - Grew up today. Leadership off the charts, bringing the team back from 14 down, converting huge 4th downs and showing massive stones. Not concerned at all about the INTs.
3. Kotelnicki - while he can get a little too cutesy at times, the difference between this dynamic offensive and Yurcich’s impotence in big games is staggering.
4. Barker - ice in his veins from a RS Freshman. We have a kicker!
5. Young CBs - both Tracy and Washington were very impressive. Props to Coach Smith.
6. Halftime adjustments - Apart from one drive D was once again awesome 2nd half.
7. Franklin stopping the planting of the flag by our guys on the field. Culture, class, win with honor. Well done, Coach!
8 Fleming - had a bad drop but TWO huge catches on 4th down. Nice.
9. Jaylen Reed - Kid is a pro. So solid.
10. Zane Durant - Disruptive. A force.
11. Overall resilience and guts. Incredibly impressive to come back like that, down 14 on the road.

CONS:
1. Slow start - gotta figure this out on D. Enough said.
2. Elsdon - kid has been a whipping boy, but it’s earned. Whenever he plays, he’s exploited. He’s not an FBS LB and he shouldn’t see the field AT ALL. Let the young guys get experience, Robinson, Speca in his place.
3. Tony Rojas - Love the kid and his upside is huge, but he was really bad yesterday. Missed tackles, bad pursuit angles. Bad. He’ll get better.
4. Donkoh injury. We need him. Hope the bye week helps him get healthy.
5. J-Thomas - expected huge things this year but he’s been oddly absent. No big plays. Weird.
6. Game probably took 6 months off my life on the back end. Worth it!

WE ARE!!!

He won't win but shouldn't Tyler Warren at least be mentioned?

The lack of self awareness is stunning

Maybe Urban Meyer wasn't to blame for what happened in Jacksonville
Trevor Lawrence just isn't the QB people that he was

I didn't know just how much adding the four new teams this year would make the B1G feel like a brand-new conference. Playing the same teams (and losing to the same teams) year after year was really getting stale to a certain degree. I'm really enjoying this season and not just because we are 6-0...but it certainly helps.

Looks pretty cool so far.

I stated early in the game thread yesterday that we were in luck in the Zebra Department. I recognized the head ref right away, though couldn't remember his name, as a guy who was hired into the conference from the East. He's officiated a number of our games over the years and done so in a fair manner in my opinion. Same thing yesterday.

I bring this up because I'm seeing some commentary this morning from other fan bases (naturally) and a couple media guys that we supposedly caught some breaks from the refs in yesterday's game. It's ironic because the unspoken premise appears to be hey, the rule is that Penn State gets screwed, not favored, and how dare those guys violate the rule!!

We did get a few close calls and non-calls that went our way. Two critical penalties on USC to negate big plays that would have set them up in easy scoring range and a couple non-calls on what some are insisting was DPI during USC's overtime possession.

We also had a close call go against us -- the OPI at the goal line. Regarding that one, I'm honestly not sure. It was close and boiled down to only one thing: whether our receiver was across the line of scrimmage when he caught the ball. I haven't seen a post-game replay and until I do, I don't feel comfortable taking a strong stand on the question.

Regardless, I have no complaints at all with the officiating yesterday. Hell, I wouldn't mind having Jerry McGinn and crew do all our games instead of just the one or so per year that they do.

Glad Franklin learned his lesson

NFM

Ohio State marched down field up early--questionable long pass completion
Illinois and Pitt survived games they should have lost
BGSU lost to NIU 17-7--unfortunately that's good news for ND
No upsets today after the chaos of last week

I was beyond impressed on Saturday with our OL on Saturday. Got me thinking the last time our OL was this good.

The '99 team had a crazy DL but the OL wasn't amazing if I recall correctly.

2005 & 2008 were fine but not as dominant as these guys.

2016? Pretty good but no move guys several yards off the ball like this team.

What say you?

Todd was not correct that just because receiver went to ground, it's a catch. It's not a catch until receiver "controls it" - whether he's on ground or not (he would be down as soon as he controls it, but not a catch until he controls it). Replay shows ball rolling around on top of duhO$U receiver while he's on ground - duhO$U receiver clearly doesn't have control of it. Oregon defender grabs it off duhO$U receiver's chest and ball never touches ground - it was clearly an Oregon INT, they called it a completion and Replay never Reviewed it despite the call clearly being wrong on the field????????

And the 2025 winner of the John Mackey Award for the best Tight End in College Football is ……

WAKE UP, IT’S PENN STATE FOOTBALL GAMEDAY!

🕰️: 7:30pm ET
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🏟️: Beaver Stadium
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I think Obliviax gave us a video of a high school team pulling off that exact play. And clearly pass interference but no call, right Bushwood? Using Pribula all year set up a touchdown vs USC when we really needed it. Well done, all around.

A few weeks ago, I believe after the Bowling Green game Franklin said that they are having too many 3 and outs. And essentially that they need to do a better job of "staying on schedule" which Franklin has said a million times in the past.

Obviously yes, 3 and outs are bad but I don't want to see us become less explosive on offense because of it.

Franklin said last year probably 500 times in press conferences that we need to "stay on schedule". But you're not going to be able to drive down the field on a regular basis vs. Very good/elite defenses. We saw what happened last year with our "stay on schedule" offense.

I just hope that Franklin isn't messing with AK's play calling bc the guy knows what he's doing, and he's very aggressive and likes to throw the ball down the field, which Allar is very good at.

But it seems like we have maybe toned down the aggressiveness a little bit the last couple of weeks to "stay on schedule" more.

Just wondering if any of you had heard those comments like I did and were concerned with them as I was/am.

Embarrassing showing by USC fans.