Blue White Illustrated

October 2022

Penn State Sports Magazine

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1 6 O C T O B E R 2 0 2 2 W W W . B L U E W H I T E O N L I N E . C O M "Salute to him, getting up from a hard hit like that. He was actually about to slide so I pulled up and didn't give him all I had." — Owen Pappoe, Auburn linebacker, on the devastating first-quarter hit that separated Clif- ford from the football and prevented a PSU first down; Clifford went on to complete 14 of 19 passes for 178 yards in PSU's 41-12 victory "More so than the narrow season-opening win at Purdue, the victory [at Auburn] validates the Nittany Lions' place in the USA Today Sports AFCA Coaches Poll and hints at the increasing possibility that PSU could land in the New Year's Six. "To get into one of these major bowl games, the Nittany Lions have to avoid stumbling against the third and fourth tiers of the Big Ten — Northwest- ern, Indiana, Maryland, Rutgers — and earn a split in the four games that will determine whether they earn any sort of national respect: Michigan, Min- nesota, Ohio State and Michigan State." — Paul Meyerberg, USA Today columnist, on the Nittany Lions' postseason outlook "If you could sketch out the model student, you're sketching out Mitch Tinsley. When he's in the wide receivers room, he sits in the front, he listens and is engaged in every word that I say. If I'm talking to somebody else, he's paying attention as if I'm talk- ing to him. He's a true student of the game." — Taylor Stubblefield, wide receivers coach, on Penn State's super senior wideout "There's a school in Columbus, and there's a school in Ann Arbor, and then there's us. We're that power brand. Now, we've got to get our mojo back. We've got to get some juice, carry that stick, and not be shy to be confident about that." — Patrick Kraft, Penn State athletics director, on the school's enduring appeal as a national college football "brand" "Roster management may turn out to be James Franklin's toughest job this season, especially in an era of NIL, the transfer portal and participation tro- phies — and with a roster filled with uber-talented freshmen. He said so … after his team defeated Ohio 46-10 in Beaver Stadium while deploying 74 different players. "Franklin is ideally — and, in some ways, uniquely — suited to handle such challenges. A former college football starting quarterback himself, he has a bachelor's degree in psychology [East Stroudsburg, 1995], a master's degree in educational leadership [Washington State, 1999] and the lifetime equivalent of a doctorate [10 coaching stops, 28 years as a coach, a dozen as a head coach]. "Managing playing time and keeping players happy is a very personal, and personnel, problem. More than ever, being especially savvy with the deployment of the Jimmys and Joes is more impor- tant than the Xs and Os." — Mike Poorman, StateCollege.com columnist They Said It Head coach James Franklin used 74 players in Penn State's 46-10 victory over Ohio on Sept. 10. PHOTO BY DANIEL ALTHOUSE "In my opinion, Sean has shown character over his entire career, so I'm really happy for him. You never want turnovers, and turnovers for touchdowns are sig- nificant. But he battled back. I thought the sideline was great with him, I thought Coach [Mike] Yurcich was great with him. That's really important. "The guy knows he made a mistake. You don't need to come to the sideline and get your head ripped off. I was proud of how the whole organization handled it. He'll grow from this, even though he's a 38-year-old, eighth-year senior." — James Franklin following the season opener at Purdue, in which super senior quarter- back Sean Clifford led the winning drive after throwing a pick-six earlier in the fourth quarter

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