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The 8-2 Nittany Lions are coming off a 45-31 nail-biter last week against Indiana. “It’s cool. We talk about it all the time and it’ll continue this week”. It’s not really hard.

Nittany Lions coaches had to be salivating at those lines.

“I was told by a lot of fans when I first got here about a rivalry with Penn State, and that’s a game they’d like to win”, Ash said Monday at his weekly press conference. “We haven’t won any of the battles against them yet, but obviously Saturday is a new day”.

But none of those scenarios matter if the Lions lose.

Penn State drove for another field goal on its next march with the help of a 26-yard pass from McSorley to tight end Mike Gesicki on a fourth-and-1 from midfield. Three players later, Barkley powered through a tackle and extended the ball across the goal line for the game’s first touchdown and a 16-0 lead. On its fourth possession inside the Scarlet Knights’ 20, Penn State went for it on fourth-and-goal from the 2-yardline and suffered from a bad snap that ended all hope of a conversion.

Kickoff is scheduled for 8 pm.

Jackson banged his second three from the corner in front of the Penn State bench to give the Blue Devils their lead at the break.

“Just want to thank our seniors”, Ash said. “That’s basically how we’re approaching that”.

There hasn’t been much to complain about with Penn State’s kicker this year.

Not only will Rutgers return nine starters next season, but in two years the Knights project to still have both their full secondary and linebacker core together. The Scarlet Knights are a cumulative 6-16 the last two seasons following a victory in the 2014 Quick Lane Bowl.

Penn State: The Nittany Lions are using the tournament as a measuring stick to see how the young team stacks up against top-level competition. CBS ranked them No. 122 in their weekly rankings, behind 10 of the 11 teams in the Sun Belt. Look for Penn State to roll along and cover once again. Barkley compiled a team-high 92 rushing yards, one small chunk of the team’s 518-yard performance. “I know it sounds cliché”.

“If you get a punt blocked against you or block a punt, that has a way of really swinging a game so I think it obviously factored in”, Franklin said. This Wisconsin team lives at the intersection of we’re-tougher-than-you and we’re-more-disciplined-than-you – a hell of a good place for any team to be.

Still, the Knights have occasionally shown glimmers of being B1G contenders as opposed to big losers.

With a loss at Maryland, Rutgers would enter the offseason with the stench of just its fourth double-digit loss season in program history.

Starting Slow- While Davis was spectacular in the first half, Penn State’s offense couldn’t get into a rhythm and had to settle for three field goals. And they dropped a 33-27 game to IN after seizing a halftime lead. The Nittany Lions must beat visiting Michigan State and have Ohio State knock off Michigan next Saturday. Or whether it’ll come out motivated and eyeing an upset.

The Flyers (2-1) took advantage of the Gaels’ sloppiness and went on a 14-1 run, cutting it to 59-57 on Charles Cooke’s jumper with 25 seconds left.