I hope to see it too;---But its extremely difficult, takes good fortune, (and some luck). Look at the Alabama (semipro) team, even they typically do not go undefeated.
I'm with you in spirit and hope though. GO PSU!!!
They didn't actually deserve to get in last year. The Big Ten, by screwing Penn State(Yes, that was Gene Smith and Barry Alvarez with UW votes), set the precedent that actually devalued their own conference championship. At the time of course, they didn't know that.
Everyone is prone to slipping up 1 time out of 12. The real difference right now, and the real advantage that the SEC has, is that the SEC plays only 8 conference games, while the Big Ten plays 9. It's a clear advantage, and right now college football needs to make a rule that forces all five power 5 conferences to play the same number of conference games per year.
Back to Penn State: Are they getting better and growing? Yes. How much? I think a good deal in two games. Giger, of course, wrote the contrarian piece yesterday about how Pitt provided "no answers" for Penn State with poor play, but the "poor play" last week was basically 4 or 5 plays, 3 of them on special teams and an interception and a goal line failure. That's it. Penn State, from the 10 minute mark of the 2nd, to the finish, blew Pitt off the field. Rain or no rain, fluke or no fluke.
Penn State knows who they are right now, and Gigers' article is wrong. It's Giger, not Jones, who writes the most negative pieces on Penn State. You need to keep your eye on the nature of the articles, if you do, you'll see that the most negative, contrarian points after games, always come from Giger.