re: Breaking down Penn St

Sprint, where do you live in Columbus? I lived in Worthington from 2000-2005. Anyway, this is a game between two good/flawed teams (I joined the two words on purpose). Our top RB at the moment, Ridley, runs with some determination if not a lot of flash, and if Shepard learns some plays and Holliday totes as he did versus Arky, maybe we can put up some ground yardage. But most of our offense will come from passing.

On defense, one way or another we'll give up a lot of yards and # of plays. IF PSU's RZ offense is good, they could put up some points on us. On the other hand, only one conference opponent put up as many as 30 points against us, so maybe we can keep the scoring in check. As I've written before, God must be a Tiger fan, because we could've easily been 6-6 this season, and He even gave us a chance to win a 10th game, which we declined. Maybe He'll be wearing P&G in Orlando.

This is anybody's game. It

good post, SprintFun.

thanks

...sounds reasonable to me....

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Penn State boasts maybe the best linebacking core in the country. That's really their strength

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Good yes, best in the country? Not by a long shot. Case in point is losing by 17 to a team that only completes 8 passes (because your front 7 cannot stop the run).

They are good, but overrated

wow...recon from our Ohio "spy"...

man, intra-conference hate in the Big10 can be vicious...much like the LSU/Ole Miss rivalry.

good post, nonetheless.

Nothing viscious, just calling it like I see it I'd be pretty happy if Penn St was able to get the win, make no mistake about it - just don't think that's going to happen.

Anyway, I agree with most of your points. I do think Clark is really overrated, as well. I don't think PSU's DL is as bad you're making them out to be, but they may not be "good" either. I wouldn't call them mediocre, though. But other than that, I basically agree.

I could really see the game going either way, though. Both teams have pretty much taken care of business in games they were supposed to, but had troubles in the really tough ones (I don't know if @ Ole Miss is "really tough", but it's certainly not easy, and LSU basically screwed themselves at the end).

Honestly, with the great post above by post...the only thing I would disagree with this that LSU will/should win by more than a little more. Other than that...great post...well said!

I see the score:

LSU 31
Penn St. 7

I think Penn State will struggle to score, LSU's defense is very staunt and will do so against PSU.

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Question: I know Penn State shows up for home games but how well do they travel? Anybody heard anything about that?

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They travel very well...won't be an easy ticket I don't think.

I thnk our lbs do a great job and the four we rotate usually play well. Our dbs are just on another level. I just hope we can run the ball cus ridley is young and our oline sucks, but they should get plenty of reps until then.