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Penn State Beats Michigan State to Reach Big Ten Title Game

Michigan State’s Tyler O’Connor leads the passing attack in his first year as the starting quarterback for Mark Dantonio’s offense.

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Who’s most likely to break down in front of the cameras? Yet, he was energized soon after, when about 200 Penn State lettermen visited campus and met with the team to offer support.

Before a possible conference title game, and a chance to perhaps reach the College Football Playoff, is the work of playing Michigan State, senior defensive end Evan Schwan said.

Franklin’s focus has been such that many questions throughout this seven-game win streak that even inched toward the bigger picture have typically been met with broken-record responses, “Indiana, Indiana, Indiana, Indiana” or “Rutgers, Rutgers, Rutgers, Rutgers”. “The stakes are always pretty high for this game”.

Have a prediction for today’s MI football game?

“No. 2 vs. No 3, really everything on the line”, Butt said.

Some other things to watch as MI visits the Horseshoe on Saturday.

The outcome of the Ohio State-Michigan game will be known just prior to kick-off, but it’s up to head caoch James Franklin and company to keep calm and take down the Spartans. He and the Wolverines plan to test their rival in the same way.

“I don’t think it’s anything long-term, hopefully, but we can’t use that as an excuse and use that as a crutch”, George Washington interim coach Maurice Joseph said. “We come with bad intentions”. “I mean we felt good about ourselves, we were ranked No. 8 in the country, which is insane to think looking back on how the season played out now”.

“Well make decisions based on how guys practice this week, ” he said.

It could be argued that both have been the most important offensive pieces for their teams.

“You look at where we were a year ago, and its confounding, ” Dantonio said at his weekly press conference Tuesday. “Well see whether he can practice or not and make a decision as the game goes on.”. “Something I would say to them is, and it’s an obvious statement, don’t get used to this because this isn’t it”. Scott has gone over 100 rushing yards in four of the Spartans’ last five games and will be a key part of Dantonio’s game plan. In other words, would he leave for the National Football League after this season? I wasn’t lost out there all the time, but I was just thinking too much and it caused me to play slower. “But yeah, my mind, I haven’t got there”.

Michigan State answered with one final drive, taking 14 plays to go 72 yards but getting stopped at the Penn State 3.

“When you come here, that’s one of the first things you learn”, McLaurin said.

This much we do know: the last time they had nine losses in a season, as they had heading into Saturday night’s match against IL, was 1987. “So you kind of have to embrace it and run with it as much as you can”. “Very rarely do they play out to be the person that you thought they were”.

“Obviously, this is not where we wanted to be when we established our goals at the beginning of the season”, Chewins said. “How that game plays out, who wins, who loses, how people look at that and how that impacts our future”.

But ask players, and the rapid improvement of a defense that entered the season young, untested and breaking in a new coordinator is just as big a reason the Nittany Lions will be striving for their first 10-win season since 2009 on Saturday against Michigan State.

Ohio State and Penn State are setting up for quite the potential problem for the College Football Playoff selection committee.

Because 11-1 Ohio State, with a courageous non-conference schedule, is going to be in the playoff.

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If any team would find itself in this position opposite Ohio State and MI, many figured back in September it would be the Spartans. They’re not going to a bowl game.

Penn State football shuts out Rutgers in crushing fashion