The annual Cy-Hawk dual is set for Saturday night - BTN+ is the viewing method for those interested

On paper - there are a few good matches if both teams are at full strength ---

Ayala/Frost
Echemendia/Parco
Kueter/Bastida

Can Christian Carroll give Buchanan a worthy match? Upset alert?

thoughts?

On the pre game show with Steve Jones on Saturday, James Franklin mentioned Wormley actually may have another year. This year the offensive line has been really good, if not vastly underrated. IF, a big IF, Sal came back you would have both tackles and both guards back, you could move Cousins to Center most likely and have one hell of an offensive line next year. Onoh, Jven Williams, Rucci, Boyer, Rulli, Birchmeier, Fitzgerald, Harbour, Sexton would be great depth depending on who/how many stay.

They beat the Jets, but it was only by a score of 32-19. Those pansies from San Francisco (er, Santa Clara) need to get it going. Hopefully, they can clean things up next week against the Rams. Getting McCaffrey back might help.

Happened a few hours ago at practice. Torn Achilles. Huge loss.

By the way if this happens at PSU, we get no information and stories about visiting his home.

I give it to the SEC--they know what they want and they are retelentless and shameless in going after it. Even in the face of 8 conference games (vs 9 in B10), several of them not playing any opponents from the other major conferences, and bad losses by their top teams (Tenn vs Arkansas, Bama vs Vandy, and Ole Miss vs Kentucky and LSU), they want at least 5 if not 6 spots in the CFP.

Over the past few weeks but especially increased this past week, SEC folks and their media supporters have been playing up their conference while simultaneously dumping on the B10 but specifically PSU and Indiana. I get the criticism on Indiana which is in part on their lack of any historical success and their strength of schedule but outside of Michigan, they have beaten everyone by 14+ points and rank 5th in game control and 2nd in Average In-Game Win Probability (a data point that ESPN uses). Our schedule is 35th in the country, higher than Oregon, Texas, Indiana, BYU, Miami, and Notre Dame. We have one close loss to the #2 team. But I've heard Pat Forde, Finebaum, etc all crap on us and push other contenders. Has anyone been advocating for us? I mean that as an honest question.

I realize the obvious answer to that is the B10 should be but many of us feel the B10 will protect 2 programs at a greater intensity than the other members. And maybe they are advocating behind closed doors but the barrage of talking heads hyping up SEC's placement in the CFP will push those opinions into a perceived reality for many (perhaps, including those in CFP selection committee).

Your thoughts on this growing slogan “Your body, my choice”.

The fact that our obscenely corrupt government still won’t come clean regarding the Truth about who was really behind the JFK assassination over 60yrs after the fact tells u exactly how corrupt our obscenely corrupt government really, truly is!

Blue State’s in today’s America are especially mind-numbing to me due to how these truly braindead people can continue to vote for obscenely corrupt democrats over, & over, & over again! It’s infuriating, & mind-numbing to me exactly how braindead voters are in these obscenely corrupt blue state’s!

America can only hope so.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/chuck-todd-will-biden-cost-harris-election-rcna175421

For a country that seems evenly divided over politics and polarized about many cultural issues, a durable majority does agree about one thing: They don’t like the Biden presidency.

And despite the machinations that resulted in President Joe Biden’s not being on the ballot this election season, his unpopularity is still the mood music of this election.

From his border policy to the economy he has been presiding over to turmoil overseas, there isn’t a lot about the Biden years that voters love in this moment. It’s why former President Donald Trump has basically a 50-50 chance to return to the White House, just four years after voters fired him.

Of course, the reason Trump’s chances aren’t greater than 50-50 is that Democrats finally read the room and switched candidates from Biden to Vice President Kamala Harris. Bottom line: It’s clearer now in hindsight — and perhaps it would have been regardless of that ill-fated debate performance — that Biden simply didn’t have a winning hand to run on. All he had was harnessing backlash over Jan. 6 and abortion, and while both issues do resonate with a significant chunk of the electorate, those two issues alone couldn’t get him to the finish line.

But while Biden isn’t on the ballot anymore, voters are certainly feeling his presence. If there’s one thing it’s clear they don’t want, it’s a candidate who reminds them of Biden.

Anyone own any Truth Social stock?

This is Great Britain but it is widespread and coming here. Canada is nuts. West Coast states. Blue cities.

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Tony Rojas is one of the featured stories. Makes one Penn State proud. They did right by his mom.

Do we have any chance at the 5 seed? It’s much more favorable than the 6 seed.

The AP poll this week has Georgia ahead of Ole Miss and by a wider margin than it has Alabama ahead of Georgia. Why is that significant? It means these voters put a higher priority on "good losses" and bad losses than head to head. Georgia has two good losses to two top 12 teams, Bama and Ole Miss. Both road losses. Ole Miss has two bad losses, Kentucky and LSU, especially with LSU losing to Florida this past week. If the CFP rankings follow this logic then Georgia will he ahead of Ole Miss.

Implication for Penn State is we cannot lose again or our playoff chances will be very slim. Why?

Indiana will be a team we will be jockeying with for a playoff spot if they lose on Saturday. Even if Indiana loses to OSU they would be ahead of us by only having one loss and a good loss to OSU assuming they are not blown out. This good loss puts them ahead of us. We also would have two losses and one being a bad loss to Minny, for example. In this scenario that then leaves us in a death match versus Tennessee for the 11th spot assuming no other disruptive upsets.

When looking at a 2 loss Penn State vs a 2 loss Tennessee I believe the edge goes to Tennessee. Our losses would be comparable, a good loss and a bad loss, PSU losing to OSU and Minny, Tenn6lising to Georgia and Arkansas. We do currently have the edge in strength of schedule (#32 vs #49). However, I believe the deciding factor would be the signature win comparison. We will not have beaten anyone that good and our best win would be #24 Illinois. They will have beaten a top ten Alabama. That is their trump card over us.

I believe we will win out so we can avoid this mess. In my opinion, we have started the playoffs and our next two games are must wins, no room for error. If we do lose again then we would need some favorable upsets such as USC beating ND an/or Vandy beating Tennessee.

Where do I find the old thread on all the places one has gotten a “We Are”?

Was in Staunton, VA Sunday night at a popular restaurant, repping PSU gear. A couple from Centre Hall approached me and we traded our PSU alliances. I think they were professors, but I might be wrong.

Ever since this day................... Hilarious. The poster boy of the left. The man SAVING THE WORLD....... Now he is enemy #1 of his nation's democratic party......

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This week, Elton John publicly renounced the Rocket Man — no, not the 1972 song, but Elon Musk, whom he called an “a**hole” in an awards ceremony.

Sir Elton, 77, is only the latest among celebrities and pundits to denounce Musk for his support of former president Donald Trump and his opposition to censorship. Musk-mania is so overwhelming that some are calling for his arrest, deportation and debarment from federal contracts.

This week, the California Coastal Commission rejected a request from the Air Force for additional launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base. It is not because the military agency did not need the launches. It was not because the nation and the community would not benefit from them. Rather, it was reportedly because, according to one commissioner, Musk has “aggressively injected himself into the presidential race.”

By a 6-4 vote, the California Coastal Commission rejected the military’s plan to let SpaceX launch up to 50 rockets per year from the base in Santa Barbara County.

Musk’s SpaceX is becoming a critical part of national security programs. It will even be launching a rescue mission for two astronauts stranded in space. The advances of SpaceX under Musk are legendary. The Air Force wanted to waive the requirement for separate permits for SpaceX in carrying out these critical missions.

To the disappointment of many, SpaceX is now valued at over $200 billion and just signed a new $1 billion contract with NASA. Yet neither the national security value nor the demands for SpaceX services appear to hold much interest for officials like Commissioner Gretchen Newsom (no relation to California’s governor, Gavin Newsom): “Elon Musk is hopping about the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods and attacking FEMA while claiming his desire to help the hurricane victims with free Starlink access to the internet.”

this is a good sign if Trump doesn't go after law abiding political citizens and simply sticks to the rule of law. His comment is that he needs the press (pointing out his meeting with Morning Joe, which shows he is far more gracious than Mika and Joe).

Trump says media is 'vital' to making America 'great again,' vows to work with 'free, fair and open' press​

'I am not looking for retribution, grandstanding or to destroy people who treated me very unfairly,' President-elect Donald Trump tells Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview​

The Trump victory is a lot smaller tha a huge mandate. As it stands now it seems more a win within the margin of error - as predicted. Neither Trump or Hariss received 50% or more of the votes. 50/50 looks like what we got.

The new Rivals250: https://n.rivals.com/prospect_rankings/rivals250/2025
Biggest risers: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-ten-biggest-risers-in-the-rivals250-32
Position-by-position breakdown: https://n.rivals.com/news/tuesdays-with-gorney-new-2025-rivals250-released-8
The Five-Star Countdown: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-five-star-countdown-for-2025-class-17
Meet the new five-stars: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-meet-the-new-five-stars-8
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