July
2012, he teamed up with fullback
Michael
Zordich and quarterback Matt
McGloin, and together those three sen-
iors convinced their teammates that the
Nittany Lions still had a future, that the
program could still do great things even
a?er it had been hit with an array of
penalties aimed at rendering it uncom-
petitive. Mauti made 95 tackles that year
before seeing his college career end with
a knee injury against Indiana. In their
season erent
team.
They hadn't overwhelmed the Buck-
eyes; in fact, they were decisively out-
gained, 413 yards to 276. But they rallied
back from de out the Buck-
eyes' ense back on the >