
To celebrate the life of Kayla Nakonechni, the football game this Saturday against Illinois will be a purple out.

Played in Baltimore's M&T Bank stadium, Penn State earned bowl eligibility for the second season in a row in front of a largely Nittany Lion-favoring crowd. In light of that, here are our gameday observations from yesterday's affair.

Paterno headlined a class of 12 inductees into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame.
Our staff thinks that Penn State will rebound nicely and become bowl eligible by the end of the day Saturday.

All signs point to Jake Zembiec being a Penn State leader both on and off the field, and his name is definitely one to remember in the near future.