Football Penn State Football rolls past Maryland en route to Big Ten Championship
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Scriv, I think the idea is that playing in the CCG amounts to an extra game. And losing in the CCG drops you back into the field so you don't even get the bye. Therefore, it only works out if you win the CCG, which we won't be favored to do against Oregon.
Obviously the way things are now with the Buckeye loss, I'm still rooting for the W today. But if the Buckeyes had won, I'd have been just as happy for us to win as well and then end up with a high home-game seed in the 1st round.
That said, sure, it'd also be great to actually win the conference this year now that the opportunity has arisen. But the first order or business in any case is to beat Maryland. And the way our offense looks right now, that doesn't look to be in the bag.
I'll be interested to see if the loser of conference games do get screwed. I honestly don't see how it can be avoided.
Respectfully disagree.. just because you don't care about a potential Big ten championship, I would think most of the fan base does. I understand your point of view but again it's a math equation...do you want to win fewer games to contend for a national title or more? The answer is easy. And I don't think we will sniff a national title anyways so why not go to Indy with one game to win a conference championship.
So you say you just want to win it all but are so afraid of playing OSU again. Newsflash, PSU will have to win many tough games to win it all.
Oh, I am so scared we must avoid OSU. A team that just lost at home to Michigan. A team we should have beat if we could score inside the 10.
Maryland was clearly holding during the Cheez It commercial.
These refs are terrible.
These refs are terrible.
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We can disagree--you don't think we're good enough to win a national title and if we're not then there's no point in winning the Big Ten. It's meaningless if you go one and out.
I do want fewer games which is why I don't want to play in a CCG--even if we win that's a push and we still have to win 4
Lose and you have to win 4
The key to any playoff is the path and matchups.
Like Ohio State can't beat Michigan--we can't beat Day--just is what it is
Like the Ravens can't beat the Steelers
If we win it's not a push because we get a bye week.. I mean yes the conference championship game counts as an extra game but so what? you win a conference championship which still means a ton to any college football fan before the playoffs even came around. There is no way at this point to even predict what teams will be playing who in the playoffs locations etc it's ridiculous to just think we know it by now
Omari Evans tripped running a route, other wise would've likely been open for a touchdown. Allar's pass falls incomplete.
No doubt.. our offensive line run blocking and overall running game schemes have just been terrible this year
You are acting like you have seen the final full bracket. I ill laugh win the Bg 10 winner has the easiest path to victory.
It's not though because we had to win a game to get though so you're still winning a game that is the equivalent of a first round game
It is what it is at this point--hopefully we win this--it's a good problem to have
END OF Q1
Maryland 7
Penn state
Nittany lions will have fourth and one on the Maryland 20-yard line.
Maryland 7
Penn state
Nittany lions will have fourth and one on the Maryland 20-yard line.
And when the Big Ten winner gets Ohio State/Notre Dame in the second round followed by the Big Ten runner up in the semis you'll say...
Not sure what they showed on the broadcast but Omari Evans tripped on that deep pass, otherwise would've been a touchdown.
It's like a 1st round game with no pressure. Lose and we are still in the playoffs. Win and get a bye. Sounds like a great problem to have.
But there is pressure because if you lose then you're playing 5 post season games to win a title
I don't think everyone is grasping how bad of a concept CCGs are in this set up
Listed as questionable for today.. which the pessimistic person in me would think we won't see him again this year.
Penn State should never overthink a fourth and short with Drew Allar at quarterback. He's 6-foot-5, 250 pounds. Get under center, get three guys behind him and push.
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Allar being our leading rusher with 8 yards in the first quarter isn't reassuring
In the Purdue box score weren't our two leading rushers beau and Warren before you get to any running backs? It's really been an underwhelming year with two supposed Blue Chip running backs
TOUCHDOWN PENN STATE
Nicholas Singleton punches it in from the goal line and the Nittany Lions take the lead.
Vega Ioane down for Penn State and he slowly walks off the field.
Nicholas Singleton punches it in from the goal line and the Nittany Lions take the lead.
Vega Ioane down for Penn State and he slowly walks off the field.
Then we can go with that
Under this awful system, which is fixed in 2 years, I simply think CCGs penalize teams and would like to avoid them if possible
Ohio State choked so that's now not a realistic option because I don't want to lose to Maryland
So....let's win and hope for the best.
He is--by far--might be the most valuable offensive player in the country
Can't even imagine what we'd look like without him
absolutely correct, also these players are used to playing 13 games. Go to the ccg and lose and its 17 games
