Can Penn State Improve to 6-0 vs. USC on Saturday Night?

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00:00When we all talked about this second Saturday in October, this

00:08was supposed to be the fourth top 25 top 15 top 10 game of

00:13this Saturday. USC gets beat as an eight and a half point road

00:17favorite in Minneapolis last week by the Golden Gophers. So

00:21it loses a little bit of its steam, but will it still be a

00:25good game four and a half point spread in favor of Penn State

00:29on the road in the Coliseum? I think it still should be a good

00:33game. I worry again about the James Franklin flat spot and we

00:39sort of got it last week, right? Like, I mean, it was a game

00:43that was scoreless in the first quarter. I know that they were

00:45up 14-3 at half, but it didn't look like Penn State really was

00:50involved in that game all that much. It didn't look like they

00:52were ready to steamroll an opponent. That was much worse

00:55than that. I mean much worse than they are. Now, they got to

00:58go out on the road for the first time since the very first

01:02game of the year against a much lesser opponent in WVU. I think

01:05USC is a better team than West Virginia. So now they got to go

01:08back out on the road cross country after four straight home

01:10games. God, it reeks of a flat spot for James Franklin. The

01:15difference here is that the number is manageable, right?

01:19I'm only laying four here and for Penn State to be able to

01:23win this game by a touchdown doesn't surprise me with their

01:26defense. This is a very capable defense. I just wonder how much

01:30is this offense going to be, you know, is Drew Allard and

01:33company going to go a full quarter without scoring a single

01:36point or doing anything of note in a game like they did against

01:39UCLA last week. USC's defense isn't as good as Illinois. So I

01:43don't think you worry about that. The real question is again,

01:46if they couldn't put up points at ease against against UCLA

01:49gives me a lot, at home no less, gives me a lot of pause for

01:52them to do it against USC on the road, especially with a ticked

01:55off USC team after dropping a game to Minnesota last week.