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Your weekly look at Penn State opponents, past and present. In December, who will you blame for destroying Penn State's strength of schedule?
Drink up, Hawkeye fans. You'll need it.
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Coastal Carolina (3-3, #163 ...
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Oregon State Beavers
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are intercepting in space (Photo via PennLive.com )
It was a gritty win on the road against an opponent that admittedly has more questions than answers . Let's go through the defense and see how they did.
Defensive Line
Once again it was a solid performance ...
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Advancing the ball a bit from the Greg Schiano article below, it's rather amazing that the one storyline we haven't explored this season is the contract status of Joe Paterno. With the team's high-scoring offense and lofty national ranking, the Paterno story has been firmly strapped into ...
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This week was pretty tame compared to last week when half the top ten teams all lost. So you don't see much movement at the top this week. Anyway, here is the ballot for this week.
Rank Team Delta
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Alabama
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Oklahoma
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LSU
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The Bloom Is Off The Scarlet Rose
[Bumped (and edited) from the diaries FanShots. I meant to write this exact column two or three weeks ago, so thanks to the Wall Street Journal(!) for overcoming my laziness. And of course, nice find by BSD member psu . - RUTS]
PSU is making the ...
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Final - 10.4.2008 1 2 3 4 Total
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vs Purdue / 10.4.08 Passing Rushing
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Well, it wasn't the prettiest win, but I'll take it. Any win on the road in the Big Ten is a good win. Here are some of my immediate thoughts.
We did what we had to do today. It may actually pay off down the road to be in a game like this. It was tight down to the wire and Purdue battled ...
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Purdue Team Stats after the jump
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Passing Rushing Sacks
G Rating Comp Att Pct Yds Y/G Y/A TD INT Rush Yds Y/G Avg TD Sack YdsL
Curtis Painter
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Be afraid, little guy. Very afraid.
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BSD Mike: Last week the pundits said Penn State would face their first real test in Illinois. It would seem that we passed, but now those same pundits are saying, "Yeah, but they haven't been tested ...
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Who Shot Who In The What Now? Penn State (5-0) at Purdue (2-2). Kickoff scheduled for noon at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Kicking Television: ESPN. Dave Pasch and Andre Ware call the game.
A Fool And His Money: The various sportsbooks seem to have settled on ...
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From Adam Rittenberg's Big Ten blog on ESPN.com:
"Everybody looked at the way that he carried himself, looked at the way he carried the scout team. You can definitely see then that he was going to be a great quarterback when it was his turn, and he definitely waited it out. ... There ...
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PSU4ever11 relinquishes the overall lead after suffering a dismal 20 point week. That makes Ackiewicz our overall leader even though he suffered a very average 35 point week. But he made some bold picks like Fresno State over UCLA as his highest confidence pick so he earned it.
The high score ...
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Savage Days
Urine balloon references from Ohio State '05 aside, a trend has clearly been established when it comes to complaints from visiting Big Ten fans:
"In our tailgate area, most of the PSU fans we met were nice and thanked us for coming out. When we trekked up to the stadium is ...
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A Vegas perspective of Penn State's chances at an undefeated regular season .
It's a Black Out! Purdue is encouraging students to wear black shirts and selling the official Black Out t-shirt online, with $2 from each sale going to the United Way.
Penn State's 5-0 start.... ironic ? ...
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Your weekly look at Penn State opponents, past and present. In December, who will you blame for destroying Penn State's strength of schedule? Probably Wisconsin. Note: Purdue preview will be late this week, probably Friday around noon.
Coastal Carolina (3-2, #157 ...
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Gimme a smurf and a siren WHOOOOOO Penn
States White House victory over Illinois did more than
impressed the voters on Saturday night. It also impressed the dozens of recruits that were on hand. Penn State already earned a verbal commitment ...
This is an experimental post in which we'll look at the Big Ten lines and try to make some sense out of them. Format is subject to change, but for now I will give an initial reaction to the line, mention some of the relevant points, and then see if, after a deeper look at the ...
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Defensive Line: B . It's been said that holding could be called on every play if the referees look hard enough. Well, holding really could've been called on nearly every Illinois offensive play. There were multiple instances of Illinois offensive linemen grabbing a ...
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Gimme a white linebacker and a siren WHOOOOO
At least one visitor was impressed this weekend as New Jersey linebacker Glenn Carson committed to Penn State while on his official visit.
Glenn Carson is headed to Penn State University to play football.
The Southern Regional High ...
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Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Syracuse Orange
The offense had its first "real test" this week and all signs point to awesome.
Offensive Line
I'm thinking about just copy/pasting a standard response for OL each week. Consistent play as usual. Clark had plenty of time to pass and was able to check his down his ...
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Devon Smith Commits to Penn State