If their comments on media day are any indication, the Nittany Lions won't take Memphis lightly at all during Saturday's Cotton Bowl Classic.
"I was amazed as soon as I saw it. Never seen anything like it."
"I think he's a future Hall of Famer. I grew up watching him when he played with Brett Favre and all those guys."
Ciarrocca has been an offensive coordinator at the FBS level for the past seven seasons, and he's led both Western Michigan and Minnesota's offenses to dizzying, unprecedented heights.
It seems like James Franklin must've liked what he saw from Minneota's offense when Tanner Morgan, Rashod Bateman, and Tyler Johnson shredded his secondary in Penn State's loss to the Gophers last month.