Penn State Dominates West Virginia 34-12 Despite Delay

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00:00A very lengthy weather delay yesterday in the rivalry renewed

00:07between Penn State and West Virginia, but it didn't slow

00:10down the Nittany Lions offensively. Welcome to State

00:14College, Andy Konelnicki and welcome Drew Allard to the big

00:18show. Yesterday for PSU on the road in Morgantown, Penn State

00:22hammers West Virginia 34 to 12 easily covering as a seven and

00:28a half point favorite. A total of 49 and a hook stays under. We

00:32could go a variety of ways here, Joe, but Drew Allard throws for

00:35216 yards and three touchdowns, or you could look at the

00:38defensive effort out of the Nittany Lions holding the best

00:42rushing offense in the Big 12 from a season ago. WVU, who

00:45averaged close to 230 yards per game to only 85 yards on the

00:50ground as a team. Yeah, complete effort and Drew Allard stepped

00:53up 216 yards. He completed 11 of 17 passes, and again, we

00:58talked about it in regards to the pregame that last year, West

01:01Virginia week number one was one of Drew Allard's best efforts

01:04throwing for 323 and three touchdowns. The concern I had

01:09on the defensive side of the ball with Tom Allen taking over

01:12for Manny Diaz, they erased that. They held West Virginia

01:15to 2.3 yards per carry. We saw Singleton and Allen take over in

01:20regards to catching the football out of the backfield

01:22cap and running it as well over 220 in terms of that matchup.

01:26They continue that type of effort again from the schedule

01:29perspective. Everything lines up for Penn State to not just

01:34win a Big Ten championship, but potentially make the college

01:37football playoff. Penn State, though, is for me a perfect

01:40example of why I'm glad the CFP rankings don't come out until

01:43later in the year, and to a degree, I almost wish they

01:46didn't come out until they came out because they're eighth

01:50right now. There are going to be some losses in front of I

01:54mean, this team doesn't play a game where you're going to

01:56consider them losing until the trip on October 12th, the USC

02:01and their other teams will just play games. Yeah. So I won't be

02:04surprised if we do a Ben's top ten, which we're going to do

02:07today. Yeah. Where you have them fourth fifth in the country

02:10and it'll be because they're unbeaten. They've looked really

02:13good and all you have to do sometimes with rankings is get

02:18to a number and even if you lose, it's hard to get you out

02:22of that range and this is the debates that we were having

02:25with our CFP brackets and I know I didn't have Penn State

02:29in and I know that you did get. I think we both might have

02:31said. Okay. I like him at ten and two all in all if they lose

02:34to USC, they enter the game fourth ranked. They're not

02:38going to fall out of the top twelve probably right if they

02:41beat USC, they're probably automatically then into the

02:44college football playoff. No matter what happens to that

02:47Ohio State game, that's what makes Penn State so

02:50fascinating. I don't worry as much about the specifics of

02:54this game because the fact that I'm not a big believer in West

02:59Virginia Andrew Owlers best game last year was also a guest

03:03against West Virginia. I just I wonder if if if Penn State is

03:08and it was almost reinforced watching them win a game that

03:10was supposed to be difficult going to schedule their way in

03:14to a college football playoff. It's a very favorable path.

03:17Penn State's Bugaboo has been in the Big Ten East not in

03:20getting past Michigan and Ohio State consistently. They play

03:24the Buckeyes this year but don't have Michigan on the

03:26schedule and based on FBS opponent win total projections.

03:30The Nittany Lions have the easiest slate in all of the Big

03:33Ten this season.

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