Matt McGloin is having an excellent season, and some award lists are beginning to take notice. Penn State's senior quarterback has been nominated for the Burlsworth Trophy presented to college football's most outstanding player who began his career as a walk-on.
After the final two games of the season conclude, several questions surrounding transfers, recruiting, a walk-on program, and Bill O'Brien's future will begin to set in. For now, the head coach has chosen to dismiss most of those inquiries, making it clear that he wants to focus on Saturday's contest against Indiana.
Eighteen hours away from State College, Lincoln, Nebraska has not always been a Big Ten town, but it is unquestionably one of the best. Nebraska was my eleventh Big Ten campus -- still missing Michigan State -- and it might rival only Penn State as the best venue for visiting fans in the conference.
Redshirt freshman tight end Kyle Carter's breakout campaign has come to a premature end after suffering a hand injury against Nebraska last Saturday. Bill O'Brien did not go into specifics about the injury at his weekly press conference but praised Carter for a great season.
On September 26th, Paul Jones' Penn State Football career came to an end when he left the team. In a month, his academic career at the university will conclude, and yesterday, Jones announced on Twitter that he will be starting a new chapter of his life at Robert Morris University in the spring.
An update on all the former Penn State players in the NFL after 10 weeks of action.