OC called a terrible 2nd half until the last drive. He went away from what was successful in the first half. Ridiculous.
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It almost worked. it was like rope-a-dope. let them get tired and play the second half. Washington coach must be a genius.
Answered your own question.
I cannot stress enough how badly I want to avoid players and coaches from the B12.
To all PSU staff: “Stop, son! Just stop.”
Allar played against Oregon, UCLA and into the 4th quarter against Northwestern in 2025. Franklin didn't lose those games because of losing Allar. Losing Rojas didn't help the defense, but that alone should not sideline the preseason #2 team in the country against the 2025 version of UCLA.
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Minny is very physical. PSU had best show up with their hard hats on if they are going to stick Fleck to the Flag Pole and Sink the Row Boat.
Maybe one of the dumbest things I've seen posted on here and that's saying a lot, lol
Answered your own question.
I cannot stress enough how badly I want to avoid players and coaches from the B12.
To all PSU staff: “Stop, son! Just stop.”
Moving on. ESpin has PSU -9.5 against Minny to open. Sure they tanked Mississippi St and Purdue, but I didn't see that coming.
about 15 years ago... maybe more. time flies.
We were at our own 15. It's reasonable to be conservative there, as a fumble or int gives Washington the ball with great field position.
Yeah, they got a first taking them to the 30 with about a minute left. Then looks like they did dial up a shot deep but then Becht got sacked, and that was it for the half.
-9.5 over Minnesota! I know Minnesota hasn't played well at Penn State lately, but... Are there some injuries?
The drive started at the 15 but we had gotten to the 29, then a 1-yard sack on 1st and 10 gave us 2nd and 11 from the 28. With 0:47 left and all 3 TOs left. (I could be wrong about the # of TOs.)
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That's about what I was guessing, as I said on Saturday night that I expected somewhere in the 7.5 to 9.5 range. Injuries aren't much of a factor on this one.
Looking ahead, we should be about a similar favorite at Maryland, and then a 17-20 point favorite against Rutgers.
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We did have all 3 timeouts...but so did Washington. I was fine with the decision to get into the half at that point.
I thought we did them a favor. We had scored 21 pts that quarter. Keep pouring it on before they get a chance to make adjustments at halftime.
It's one of those spots where if we throw an incomplete pass on 2nd down (or worse, turn it over) and give Washington a chance to score and take some momentum into the half, Campbell is 2nd guessed for being an idiot and trying to press the issue while we had little time and poor field position (especially with the "quality" of our punting game). But guess that's why he makes a boatload more $ than we do.
We were taking our shot on 1st down, but the sack made us change gears...I didn't think it was a bad decision (didn't think it was a great decision either, I was pretty neutral with it based on the circumstances at that moment).
I wouldn’t call the 28 bad field position.
47 seconds with 3 TOs is plenty of time to go the ~35-40 yds needed for a FG attempt.
I would say going for it on 4th and 7 at their 35 was a bigger gamble myself. I was ok with that, but as long as we’re talking about risky decisions and momentum…
I was good with going for it on 4th. Barker is 0-3 lifetime from 50+ and not sure how deep we trust him from. But for me, it’s either go for it or the FG…I’ve read some that think we should have punted, but that’s the last option I’d consider in that spot. I didn’t even hate the play call, but don’t love running it towards the boundary side of the field.
The PSU athletic department is like, "Why didn't we think of that?" Hey, a thousand bucks is a thousand bucks and they wouldn't care if a fan ran out in Pitt gear if it meant making money.
Washington knows we have to throw so it is not like the entire playbook is at our disposal. A pick there leading to Washington points would have been really bad. What we could have done is see if Sowell could get open on some kind of 30 yard up and out to the sideline and he either catches it or it goes OB. Even that could be dicey as we are trusting Becht not to make an errant throw where it is picked.
There were a lot of really great plays against the Huskies, but one underrated play was in the 2nd quarter when Ty Blanding held onto the Washington QB by his shoe laces to keep him in the pocket and allow others to try to tackle him. Washington settled for a FG. Had the QB broken free, I am pretty sure he would have scored.
(I did not look through the thread to see if this had already been discussed).
(I did not look through the thread to see if this had already been discussed).
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