I was kind of surprised at 19 pt spread as Penn State usually provides a stiffer challenge. Yet, looking at the stats, shows why the spread is the spread..
Clifford is a good runner and threat ... yet Fields has 377 yards vs 374 ... with fewer carries (4.5 ypc vs 3.9)
Teague is said to be good enough to start for all but Wisc ... Brown and Cain have 870 yards combined vs 744 yards for Teague ... won’t even mention how Dobbins blows that out of water.
Fields is light years ahead of Clifford with 191 rating vs 154 rating and almost 10% higher completion percentage (69.1 vs 59.6).
Then even on defense, penn state is giving up over 50% more yards 335 vs 217.
Yes, Penn State has played 1 tougher opponent in Michigan vs our Cincinnati. Yet, that doesn’t skew stats that much. Penn State beat Mich St and Maryland like we did. Yet, Mich St was our worst game and Penn St one of their best. You look at some of other games like Minn and Ind and see their true self. They also played Buffalo and trailed 10-7 at half - a team that lost to Miami of OH 34-20. They also barely beat Pitt 17-10 who barely beat Syracuse 27-20.
It will take their best and our worst to lose. Day ain’t going to let that happen. Yes, Hamler May play and is deep threat. Yet, like Wisc, we will take away the best player w safety help and make rest beat us. We got great front 7 to contain their run. Put a safety over the top on Freirmuth with LB dropping underneath ... you can have one guy get his 5-6 receptions and not kill us. They have 2 receivers who are deep threats (over 17 yards) but let’s be realistic in how a bad defense gives up big plays where OSU defense will not allow them to be open by 5 yards. And, if it does rain, you take away their deep threats anyway.
Clifford is a good runner and threat ... yet Fields has 377 yards vs 374 ... with fewer carries (4.5 ypc vs 3.9)
Teague is said to be good enough to start for all but Wisc ... Brown and Cain have 870 yards combined vs 744 yards for Teague ... won’t even mention how Dobbins blows that out of water.
Fields is light years ahead of Clifford with 191 rating vs 154 rating and almost 10% higher completion percentage (69.1 vs 59.6).
Then even on defense, penn state is giving up over 50% more yards 335 vs 217.
Yes, Penn State has played 1 tougher opponent in Michigan vs our Cincinnati. Yet, that doesn’t skew stats that much. Penn State beat Mich St and Maryland like we did. Yet, Mich St was our worst game and Penn St one of their best. You look at some of other games like Minn and Ind and see their true self. They also played Buffalo and trailed 10-7 at half - a team that lost to Miami of OH 34-20. They also barely beat Pitt 17-10 who barely beat Syracuse 27-20.
It will take their best and our worst to lose. Day ain’t going to let that happen. Yes, Hamler May play and is deep threat. Yet, like Wisc, we will take away the best player w safety help and make rest beat us. We got great front 7 to contain their run. Put a safety over the top on Freirmuth with LB dropping underneath ... you can have one guy get his 5-6 receptions and not kill us. They have 2 receivers who are deep threats (over 17 yards) but let’s be realistic in how a bad defense gives up big plays where OSU defense will not allow them to be open by 5 yards. And, if it does rain, you take away their deep threats anyway.
