‘PSU Football 2010’ Archive

Outback Bowl: Florida 37 Penn State 24; Bolden wants out

This just in — Matt McGloin just threw another interception.
The Penn State Nittany Lions concluded their 2010 season with an interception filled Outback Bowl against the Florida Gators. Despite leading heading into the fourth quarter, the Nittany Lions lost fairly big. McGloin, the walk-on quarterback showed why he was a walk-on and why his teammates [...]

2011 Outback Bowl: Penn State vs. Florida prediction

The run up to the Outback Bowl has been mostly about the coaches: Florida’s Urban Meyer, stepping down at age 46 and Penn State’s Joe Paterno, planning to return for his 46th season at age 84. Meyer is apparently off to ESPN following today’s game. Paterno and his family denied rumors that he had been [...]

Big Ten unveils Leaders and Legends divisions, Stagg-Paterno Trophy

This afternoon, the Big Ten Conference revealed their new logo and the names of the divisions. The Leaders division includes Penn State, Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, Wisconsin and Ohio State. The Legends division includes Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska and Northwestern.
There are a whole lot of new trophies too and they all have hyphenated names. [...]

The coaching carousel and Penn State’s jersey color for the Outback Bowl

This hasn’t been a quiet week in college football and Penn State may be feeling some aftershocks. Pitt Temple West firing Dave Wannstedt has people like Slow States wondering if defensive coordinator Tom Bradley would be a candidate for that vacancy (you should listen to their podcasts by the way, especially the 23 minute mark [...]

Penn State vs. Florida in the Outback Bowl

The Penn State Nittany Lions will play the Florida Gators in the 2011 Outback Bowl. They last played each other in the 1998 Outback Bowl after a season where both teams were ranked #1 for a time. This season, both teams were not ranked #1 or even close to it.
Should be an interesting matchup, [...]

Beat writers on Penn State – Michigan State aftermath

Bob Flounders and David Jones of the Patriot-News and Detroit Free Press columnist Drew Sharp highlight Penn State’s 28-22 loss to Michigan State

Cory Giger and Neil Rudel of the Altoona Mirror

Michigan State Spartans 28 PENN STATE NITTANY LIONS 22

Football season is over.
Penn State played pretty uninspired football for 3 quarters today, falling to the Michigan State Spartans. The Nittany Lions could not get much going offensively after their first drive, when Evan Royster ran roughshod over Sparty. MSU adjusted and built up a 14-3 half time lead. The Nittany Lions seemed to be [...]

Penn State Nittany Lions vs. Michigan State Spartans prediction

After the Michigan game, their seemed to be a groundswell in the Penn State blogosphere that the Michigan State game was their for the taking. I include myself in that group and after Penn State beat Northwestern, I was almost certain of it. The next Saturday, at Ohio State changed that thinking. It was not [...]

Hail 2thelion/Diesel Tailgate!

LANDOVER, Md. — Since I retired from tailgating prior to my son being born, I started going to the 2thelion tailgates on my rare trips to Penn State games. For big games, they team up with Diesel Tailgate. These folks go all out.

Yup, that’s a pig. We had it post-game. I got talked into eating [...]

Beat writers on Penn State vs. Indiana

Bob Flounders and David Jones of the Patriot-News

Corgy Giger and Neil Rudel of the Altoona Mirror

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