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Highly entertaining game in Blacksburg last night. The refs got it right on the last second FG. I thought he made it watching it live...but this video and the college rule make it pretty obvious that the call was correct.

The most predictable thing imaginable is happening to Penn State football, and somehow the entire fan base seems shocked. Penn State fired the coach who took a dead program and made it nationally relevant again because winning 10 or 11 games wasn’t enough. They convinced themselves James Franklin was the thing standing between Penn State and a national championship. Then came the coaching search. They missed on their top targets, eventually landed on Matt Campbell, and now the program already looks like it may have taken a step backward. But this was always the risk. Penn State’s biggest problem has never been James Franklin, Matt Campbell or whoever happens to be standing on the sideline. It’s the completely unrealistic perception of what Penn State football actually is. The fan base talks about Penn State like it’s a true blue blood where competing for national championships every year is the standard. It isn’t. Penn State has won two recognized national championships in the modern era, the last coming in 1986. James Franklin went 104-45, won a Big Ten championship, consistently won 10+ games, made major bowls and eventually got Penn State into the College Football Playoff. And somehow the conclusion became: this isn’t good enough for Penn State. Except it was. That level of success wasn’t beneath Penn State. It was one of the best sustained stretches the program has had in decades. Franklin absolutely had flaws. He struggled against the elite teams Penn State desperately wanted to beat, and eventually the frustration became overwhelming. But firing him meant Penn State was making a bet that replacing a very good coach would turn them into something they historically have rarely been: a program that consistently competes for national championships. Now Matt Campbell gets to inherit those same expectations. The media will crush him after every bad loss. The fans will demand something better. And eventually everyone will start asking why Penn State still isn’t Ohio State. Maybe at some point the question shouldn’t be why every coach fails to meet Penn State’s expectations. Maybe the question should be whether Penn State’s expectations have ever matched reality.

Penn State fans having to watch Grunkermyer play like an NFL QB for James Franklin split screened with Rocco Becht is a cruel kick in the nuts

I’m not trying to pile on but what did Matt Campbell think was gonna happen in the Big 10 when he filled his roster with a bunch of guys from a mediocre Big 12 team?

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My reaction to one of the worst Penn State losses of all time. I hate it here.

Keep Franklin, Keep Grunk, have a much better portal haul than Iowa State players and Penn State is a slam dunk playoff team this year. That is all they had to do. Weather one disappointing season. They couldn't do it. Out of entitlement, they threw a tantrum and now they got what they deserve.

Me wearing my Penn State gear for the foreseeable future.

I don’t think there’s any doubt Pat Kraft’s career is on the line if this doesn’t work. Firing Franklin and leading a messy search that landed here was like going all-in with a pair of 9s. If it fails there is one person who will be very easy to blame.

Field pass will be insane

This is the worst Penn State football team since 2003. There is virtually no Big Ten-caliber talent. No 65-scholarship sanctioned team was half as bad. The head coach and staff couldn’t right the ship, because there is no ship. Winter is here; accountability will follow.

The ACC clearly picked a winner and wanted to script the season

Penn State exits the field with Pat Kraft trailing. One fan at the end let him know his displeasure. #NittanyLions #PSU #PennState

I started to realize this during the coaching search but Penn State is just not the destination program that we think it is and there’s a good chance the highs we had under Franklin are just the peaks possible for the program

Matt Campbell: We have the right human beings in that locker room, and we certainly have the right coaches in that locker room. The challenge will be getting ourselves aligned back to who we want to be, where we need to be and fundamentally the team we need to be to be able to win.

What did I do to deserve this

🚨 PITT FOOTBALL HISTORY The Panthers have now scored 30+ points in FIVE straight road games for the first time since 1976–77.

Penn State coach Matt Campbell on PSU’s 34-13 loss to Northwestern: “The frustrating thing for me is the standard of what this program plays football with — the attitude, the effort, the toughness. We lacked in every way, shape and form in it.”

In five college seasons at three different schools, Holden Geriner threw 21 passes. Not 21 touchdowns. Twenty one attempts. Total. Last night he came off the bench and threw the one that beat Virginia Tech and kept the Pittsburgh Panthers undefeated. Geriner is from Savannah, Georgia. At Benedictine Military School he won a Class 4A state championship and was the MVP of the title game, and he threw for 3,377 yards and 36 touchdowns as a senior. He finished high school with more than 7,100 passing yards. He was a four star recruit. The 18th ranked quarterback in the country in the 2022 class. Then he went to Auburn and played in eight games in three years. Then he transferred to Texas State and played in three games in a season, and threw a pass in exactly one of them. Nine completions. Twenty one attempts. 116 yards. One interception. That is a five year college career. He came to Pitt this season as a redshirt senior and he knew exactly what the job was. Back up Mason Heintschel and help raise two true freshmen quarterbacks. A former Pitt quarterback named Nate Yarnell, who had been his teammate at Texas State, told him he would love it there. He said this in August, before any of it. I want to be a coach on the field as a player. And this. Not getting as many opportunities in the past drives me forward. Pitt fell behind Virginia Tech 14-0. Then 24-14. Then Heintschel took a hit, walked off to the locker room, and did not come back. So the guy who had thrown 21 passes in five years jogged out there. Early in the fourth quarter Geriner found Cam Hicks for 29 yards and a touchdown. That was the last point Pittsburgh scored all night. Virginia Tech came back. They got a safety. They got a touchdown. They ran out of field. Final score 35-33. Which means the pass Holden Geriner threw was the entire difference. The rest of that box score is almost funny. Virginia Tech outgained Pitt 499 yards to 295 and lost. The Hokies turned it over four times. Pitt did not turn it over once. Pittsburgh is 5-0. And the quarterback who got them through the fourth quarter of that game had not thrown a pass that mattered since he was in high school in Savannah. Be honest about the hard part. Mason Heintschel was playing well and nobody in that building is celebrating a leg injury, and one throw does not erase five years of holding a clipboard. But a quarterback who has spent his entire adult life as somebody else's backup said out loud, in August, that not getting chances is the thing that drives him. Last night somebody finally handed him one. Fourth quarter. On the road. Undefeated season sitting right there. He threw it for a touchdown.