The Purdue Boilermakers (1-8, 0-5) are coming to town on Saturday to take on our Penn State Nittany Lions (5-4, 2-3) at 12 p.m. The teams last played in 2012, with Matt McGloin burning the Boilermakers for 321 yards and two touchdowns in a 34-9 blowout win. Saturday's game has the potential for a similar result, but only if the Nittany Lions follow these five keys to the game.
Paul Posluszny just joined Cameron Wake, Tambi Hali, and Sean Lee as former Nittany Lions that won Defensive Player of the Week honors this season.
In his weekly press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Bill O'Brien discussed moving on from Minnesota, getting ready for Purdue, the development of Christian Hackenberg, and more.
The Nittany Lions struggled on Saturday against the Minnesota Golden Gophers en route to a 24-10 road loss. The game looked unwinnable for Penn State from the start as the offense came out cold and the defense could not make plays early on. After digesting one of the ugliest football games of the season, we handed out some grades to the team.
Ask any Penn State fan old enough to remember the 1970's who the greatest linebacker they ever saw was, and Bruce Bannon is usually one of the first answers. Although many great linebackers have come and gone since the 1972 All-American suited up for Penn State, Bannon was one of the first great products in the early days of Linebacker U. He would go on to play for two years in the NFL with the Dolphins, but he made his legacy on the gridiron here in Happy Valley. We caught up with Bannon to talk Nittany Lion football, life after leaving Happy Valley, and his playing days.
Minneapolis isn't your average Big Ten town, nor are the Gophers your average Big Ten team this year. It was cold, it wasn't particularly exciting football, and the result stunk, but TCF Bank Stadium is certainly an interesting place to watch a game.