Blue White Illustrated

January 2017

Penn State Sports Magazine

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P O S T S E A S O N P R E V I E W >> P E N N S T A T E But if the Lions have shown anything this year, it's that they're not burdened by the past. This is a team that has repeat- edly shrugged o= bad quarters and even bad halves. It's a team that simply doesn't know when the cause is lost, because, to their way of thinking, it's never lost. The Lions could have written o= their season a>er falling to Michigan, 49-10, in their Big Ten opener, their second de- feat in three weeks. They didn't. They could have given up on their bid to upset No. 2 Ohio State when they found themselves trailing by two touch- downs in the fourth quarter. They didn't do that, either. They could have given up on their title hopes a>er falling behind Wisconsin by 21 points in the second quarter of the Big Ten Championship Game. We all know how that ended. During its 13 games this season, Penn State has rallied back from four double- digit deer trailing by 10 in the third quarter. It scored 31 of the game's er h punt of the a>ernoon, Trace McSorley stepped up in the pocket and delivered a pass to Irvin Charles at mid

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