PSU QB Drew Allar suffered a season-ending leg injury, Penn State’s year just keeps getting worse. ESPN says PSU is the first team to lose back to back games as 20 point favorites in 30 years.
They will emphasize the injury even though the injury was with 3 minutes left in the game with PSU behind not early in the game. The Franklin trolling is amusing.
It was definitely a good win and not one I though possible at the beginning of the season. I thought Oregon, @ PSU, and Wrigley Michigan were the minimum guaranteed losses before the season began.
Hopefully I can close out the lakefront stadium next week seeing a win. They still haven’t published new stadium prices so this could be our last season ticket year after 30 seasons.
Penn State has fired Coach James Franklin. The Nebraska media are saying former Penn State player and assistant coach Matt Rhule, now at Nebraska, may be their top choice to replace Franklin.
Correction, Rhule has not coached at Penn State, but he did coach at Temple when Penn State’s AD was at Temple, and ESPN puts Rhule at the top of the list of candidates.
Is my memory failing me or is this not the first time in recent years that a coach has been fired in the aftermath of a loss to Northwestern?
Reminds of our dark old when Northwestern could never beat a top 20 team because, by definition, if Northwestern beat someone in the top 20, they weren’t worthy of being in the top 20 and were dropped out of the rankings thereafter.
The following information is just from my memory, I might be wrong.
James Franklin last loss at Penn State was to Northwestern.
Lovie Smith last loss at Illinois was to Northwestern.
Scott Frost last loss at Nebraska was to Georgia Southern, but his last loss in BIG was to Northwestern.
Tim Beckman last loss at Illinois might be to Northwestern (not sure).
Here is what I know about the new stadium pricing:
Pricing throughout this whole process will be fluid – we analyze how the current product on sale performs at a certain price and we learn how to adjust from there. We want to stay away from pricing out the whole stadium and put everything up online without having meaningful conversations about what that seating area truly is. That process unfortunately led to many issues on the lake last year.
This will be the process we keep throughout all 3.5k premium seating options (only 10% of seats). We will offer these premium seating (all-inclusive like the Wildcat Den or Wilson Club) options out first and then start grouping in more general seating sections together. Depending on time, we could end up offering the entire lower level all at once, then the 200 level, and so forth. I promise there will be a price for everyone in the new stadium
Maybe that’s why Franklin backed out of the games with NU when he was trying to get the job at State Penn.
GoB1GCats
rsl
NU used to be known as a coaching graveyard during the dark years before GB.
Now it is the coaching graveyard for those who fail to have their teams ready to play our kids.
IMHO, turnabout is certainly fair play.
Jeff
Along with Indiana, I’d bet we hold the B1G record for Homecoming games played, mostly as the visitor.
Go B1GCats!
rsl
We’re discussing homecoming 2 weeks ago as it is rare for us to play a non-B1G opponent for homecoming.
Only 3 times in history: 2025 ULM, 2023 Howard, and 1962 ND
https://hailtopurple.com/cde/homecoming.html
We’ve played 3 teams 15 times – Indiana, Minnesota, and tOSU. Super shocked by tOSU.
Perhaps of interest – ESPN.com piece from a couple of years ago, re: origin of Homecoming games: