Highlights from Penn State’s 39-0 win at Rutgers

The Sandusky situation led to harsh NCAA sanctions that removed Nittany Lions football from the national spotlight.

No one really stood out on either side of the ball.

The only team in their division the Scarlet Knights have scored upon is in, which Rutgers lost to 33-27 on November 5. Penn State had 11 tackles for loss.

“I saw it kind of die in the wind and start spinning fast and coming down”, Davis said.

Rutgers (2-9, 0-8) had hoped to send its seniors off on a high note in their final home game, but instead reached another low point.

“To be a 10-2 team, we need to win the next game”, McSorley said of his priorities.

How bad is Rutgers?

Sunday was better, thanks to a 71-50 Cincinnati win over Penn State in the consolation game of the Naismith Hall of Fame Tipoff. In those four games, the Knights were outgained 2,258 yards to a meager 382. Penn State has really righted the ship in its six-game win streak in terms of finding a way to win even if it didn’t play that great for 60 minutes.

In doing so, the Lions’ defense recorded its first shutout of the season.

“I’m personally calling you out”, Franklin said, referring to the former all-American linebacker from the late 1990s.

Somehow, the score was only 9-0 at the half. They’re going to come out being aggressive in how they call the game, the decisions they make and how their players play.

“We have a tremendous group of seniors here in this program that have been through a lot”, said first-year coach Chris Ash, who is grateful that the seniors have bought into his approach. “This is a insane game. We need the lettermen from all over the country to fly in”.

One more regularly-scheduled week in arguably the most stunning Penn State football season on record.

Nearly forgotten was how the Lions took an entire first half, yet again, to find themselves.

October 1: Ohio State 58, Rutgers 0 October 8: Michigan 78, Rutgers 0 November 5: IN 33, Rutgers 27 November 12: Michigan State 49, Rutgers 0 November 19: Penn State 39, Rutgers, 0.

If you envisioned a world in which Penn State has the best chance to emerge from the Big Ten East with only two games to play in the regular season, congratulations, there’s something wrong with you.

Penn State’s road to Saturday has been dotted with signposts signaling the resurgence, from the near-comeback at Pitt to the system restart after MI to the rally against Minnesota to the turnaround night against Ohio State. That task begins on Saturday as they travel to High Point Solutions Stadium to face the Rutgers Scarlet Knights.

In comments posted on social media, Walker’s family expressed sadness over the injury. A four-year letterman, a two-time captain, and an incredible teammate and person.

“We have to be focused on playing as a unit”, he said. Whoever we’re playing Sunday, trying to get better that day. “If you (were) to name an MVP right now, probably be him”.

“But the one thing that always stayed strong”, he added, “is the brotherhood between all the players and that’s something I’ll never forget and something that I’ll cherish for the rest of my life”.

You can’t assess the coaching job that has gone on at Penn State over the last five years without acknowledging the hard – almost impossible – circumstances under which the program has functioned. But conditioning, depth and aggressive play-calling must have had an impact, too. Johnson, a redshirt freshman and highly decorated high school player from Glassboro, New Jersey, has exactly one catch this year.

“Walker entered the offseason for the 2014 season back on the running backs depth chart”.

Latsko is second on the team with eight goals this season, including four game-winners, while freshman Taylor Ziemer (Santa Rosa, Calif.) has scored seven goals.

That was McSorley’s final drive of the game. He also played a big role on special teams. “We got better. And that’s our goal Just keep getting better”.