STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (AP) – There is an unmarked grave somewhere along penn State’s two driving ranges.
It includes the film of a brutal start to the season opposed to Temple, buried a day after the Nittany Lions were beaten and humiliated through their state rivals Owls in 2015.
They take care of major losses in those days, however, their beating 38-25 through the No. 3 Ohio State still hurts, and the 0-2 start wasn’t simple for a team hoping to compete for at least one Big Ten title. Now out of the AP’s Top 25 for the first time in 4 years, the Nittany Lions are looking to locate a safe positivity to rely on and avoid falling to 0-3 for the first time since 2001.
“I don’t think I’ve ever been in that boss training job,” said James Franklin of Penn State. “I think our boys have taken a very mature approach. Obviously, disappointed and frustrated and not where we should be or where we should be. “we think we are.
Franklin noted that betting a season on non-conference games made the stage more urgent.
The Nittany Lions dug a deep hole for themselves to Indiana in the first game of the season. A beating through the Buckeyes on Saturday dropped them off at Big Ten East.
Regional rival Maryland (1-1) s at Beaver Stadium on Saturday before the Nittany Lions to Nebraska, where a Penn State team has not won since 1981.
“It’s pretty much all or nothing with the school football playoffs now,” Franklin said. “So, for the most part, our boys treated adversity well. “
This comes with the burial of bad memories in the educational center.
First, there’s a brief era of relaxation. After Saturday’s near-empty defeat at Beaver Stadium, six other Penn State players decided to talk to reporters.
Quarterback Sean Clifford, with a patch on his black eye still on one cheek, noted the good thing: Penn State was able to “the middle eight”: the last 4 minutes of the first part and the first 4 minutes of the part of the moment.
That despite being overtaken by 526-325, running just 44 yards, converting 3 of nine third attempts and owning the ball for just 23 minutes.
“Like last week, we had a landing (to start the third quarter) and then nothing,” Clifford said. “We have to perceive that in the first part for sure. I can’t be a team at the moment. “
Supporter Ellis Brooks had a vision.
“I feel like we want to start faster, pass out and play with that intensity we had in the middle of the moment,” Brooks said.
The defensive take-off of Antonio Shelton, who fits into one of the team’s most powerful voices, stood up, took a messurate respite and answered with a sharp question about the defense by allowing more than 500 yards.
This had happened at Beaver Stadium since a loss to UCF in 2013.
“What I’m not going to do is throw anyone under the bus, ” said Shelton. “What happened tonight is that we made too many mistakes against a team whose attack is very, very talented.
Penn State usually holds meetings on Sunday afternoons before its first practice of the week. Franklin and his team have taken on that and so far this week they’ve picked up some sophisticated clues that mean the team is on the hunt for improved ground turtles.
To the right to show off regionally in sometimes hot rivalry, Franklin knows they will have to leave the slate blank and blank at the same time.
“Our framework language and our habit and our lack of defense, all of us, I think was smart,” Franklin said. “And that led us to have a very clever practice on Sunday and a very clever practice yesterday. “
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