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For the first time as a starter, Penn State Football quarterback Drew Allar looked human against Illinois Saturday afternoon. After completing 78 percent of his passes in his first two career games, Allar did not complete 50 percent of his passes against Illinois Saturday. Even with at least a few of those passes dropped by […]
Penn State Football went on the road and beat Illinois in the Nittany Lions‘ first road test of 2023 to move to 3-0 on the season. While the Nittany Lions’ offense struggled for most of the day, Penn State was able to continue the nation’s longest of scoring 30 points, extending their streak to 10 games. […]
Saturday, Penn State Football will face its first road test of the season against the Illinois Fighting Ilini at noon. Although Illinois is not as strong on paper this season as it was last season when the Ilini won eight games, Penn State will need to execute in all facets of the game in order […]
No. 7 Penn State Football (2-0) led by quarterback Drew Allar, running back Nick Singleton, and linebacker Abdul Carter travel to Champaign, Illinois, to take on the Illinois Fighting Illini (1-1) in a Week 3 game of the 2023 College Football season on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023 (9/16/23) at noon inside Memorial Stadium, on FOX. […]
Penn State Football faces its first road test of the season when the Nittany Lions face off against the Fighting Ilini Saturday at noon. Here are three bold predictions for Penn State’s first road game of 2023: Penn State Football rushes for 250+ yards, including two 50+ yard rushes In the first two games of […]
No. 7 Penn State Football (2-0), led by QB Drew Allar, RB Kaytron Allen, and CB Kalen King, travels to take on the Fighting Illini (1-1) in an in-conference contest, opening up Big Ten play for the eight consecutive season, on the road. The Nittany Lions checks in at No. 7 in the third AP […]
No. 7 Penn State Football (2-0) quarterback Drew Allar has answered the bell and lived up to the hype through the Nittany Lions’ first three games of the season, but the sophomore faces arguably his most daunting task to date in Week 3. Allar has completed an astonishing 78.2 percent of his passes for 529 […]
Penn State Football will face its first road test of the season as the Nittany Lions head to Champaign, Illinois to face the Fighting Ilini at noon on Saturday. While the Ilini come into the game off of a loss to Kansas, a few matchups could prove difficult for the James Franklin‘s team. To remain […]
No. 7 Penn State Football (2-0) led by quarterback Drew Allar, running back Nick Singleton, and linebacker Abdul Carter travel to Champaign, Illinois, to take on the Illinois Fighting Illini (1-1) in a Week 3 game of the 2023 College Football season on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023 (9/16/23) at noon inside Memorial Stadium, on FOX. […]
It’s difficult to win on the road in college football, a test No. 7 Penn State Football (2-0) has yet to face this season. Saturday afternoon, the Nittany Lions will yet again open Big Ten Conference play on the road, heading to Champaign to take on the Fighting Illini in a noon kickoff that carries […]
No. 7 Penn State Football is flying high into their Week 3 matchup with Illinois at Memorial Stadium. The Nittany Lions have gotten off to a fast start and are squarely in the top-10 rankings and early-season CFP conversations. PSU blew out Delaware 63-7 last week in a rout that was never really close. Penn […]
They’re just kids, but sometimes you have to just call it how you see it. Penn State Football defensive coordinator Manny Diaz has put together one of the best defenses in the country in State College, allowing only 22 points through the first two games of the season. This was a unit that was elite […]
No. 7 Penn State Football (2-0), led by quarterback Drew Allar, running backs Nick Singleton and Kaytron Allen, and linebacker Abdul Carter take the road in the Big Ten Conference opener against the Illinois Fighting Illini (1-1) in Week 3 of the 2023 College Football season, on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023 (9/16/2023) at noon at […]
Head of QB Excelerate and private quarterback coach of Penn State Football quarterback Drew Allar, Brad Maendler, took to twitter Tuesday to show how Allar’s offseason work at QB Excelerate has directly led to Allar’s success in Penn State’s offense in 2023. Allar has excelled in his first two starts for Penn State Football in […]
Yes, even after a 63-7 victory over the Delaware Blue Hens last Saturday there is room for improvement for Penn State Football. In his weekly press conference Tuesday, Penn State head coach James Franklin mentioned plenty of positives coming out of Saturday’s win; playing 80 players in the game, defensively causing 10 3-and-outs, offense running […]
No. 7 Penn State Football travels to Illinois to take on the Fighting Illini to open Big Ten Conference play in Week 3. Illinois had a strong defense last season, but so far, that is not the case in 2023. The Illinis ranked 125 in defense after two games this season. However, Penn State must […]
Tuesday afternoon in his weekly press conference, Penn State Football head coach James Franklin spoke on opening Big Ten play on the road for the 13th time out of the last 14 seasons, including every season since 2016. According to Franklin, Penn State has a “tradition” of opening on the road for which he joked […]
Don’t look now but Penn State Football now holds nation’s longest streak of scoring 30+ points Penn State dominated Delaware Saturday en route to a 63-7 win over the Blue Hens as the Nittany Lions put up six rushing touchdowns. Saturday’s game marked the ninth game in a row in which Penn State Football put […]
The 2023 NFL season is now underway, and former Penn State Football star Micah Parsons is already up to his old tricks. The Dallas Cowboys defensive end made his presence known early to New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones with a violent sack of the signal caller in the first quarter of the Sunday Night […]
In a game that was pretty much over a few minutes into the second quarter former Penn State tight end Pat Freiermuth did everything he could to make it a contest for the home town Steelers, who hosted the vaunted San Francisco 49ers in the season opener. If nothing else the third year starter showed […]
