#James Franklin

After a breakthrough freshman season, Penn State running back Nicholas Singleton is appearing on some early Heisman Trophy odds lists. But his potential starting quarterback has even better odds. According to BetOnline.ag, Penn State quarterback Drew Allar is a 25/1 bet to win the 2023 Heisman Trophy. Even though hasn't started a game - and hasn't…

LINCOLN - One more offseason. One more preseason. One more football season. And one more postseason. All with a new commissioner, and an eye toward a larger future in the league. One more trip around the sun with this iteration of Big Ten football. And one more year with divisional schedules. One more year, for certain, of a Big Ten title game. The…

The 2022 college football season is sadly behind us, as Georgia repeated as national champions by clobbering TCU 65-7 on Monday night. Now that another season has ended, let's evaluate the year as a whole by looking at how each college football conference did in 2022. To gauge how each conference performed this season, we'll take a look at a…

Penn State finished the 2022 season at No. 7 in the final Associated Press top 25. It is poised to start the 2023 slate inside the top 10, as well. Early rankings and oddsmakers' opinions in the future market have head coach James Franklin's team anywhere from a top-five team to No. 9 nationally. Sporting News places the Lions in the latter spot in…

Georgia will chase a third consecutive national championship in 2023 as the favorite in the USA TODAY Sports way-too-early Top 25 for next season, ahead of the familiar run of teams that have come to dominate the Bowl Subdivision. The Bulldogs are followed by No. 2 Michigan, No. 3 Alabama, No. 4 Florida State and No. 5 Penn State. After an…

Confetti hadn't even dropped on the 2022 college football season when odds for next year's contenders were released. Penn State's now part of the hot list to win a confetti celebration in Houston next January. Penn State opened with 18/1 odds to win 2023-24 College Football Playoff championship, according to BetOnline. The Lions earned a rising…

PASADENA, Calif. - Penn State's players, coach James Franklin and even the radio broadcast team of Steve Jones and Jack Ham wore white No. 34 jerseys as they arrived at the stadium Monday. That's the number the late Franco Harris wore at Penn State, although he's probably better known nationally as No. 32, which he wore during a hall of fame career…

There is no bowl game that carries the same level of prestige as the Rose Bowl. "The Granddaddy of them All" might not be working to crown a national champion this season, but that doesn't take away from the history of playing in Pasadena at the end of the college football season. This year will be the 109th edition of the Rose Bowl. It has been…

No. 8 Utah takes on No. 11 Penn State in the Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena, Calif., on Monday. Game time is scheduled for 5 p.m. ET, and it will be televised on ESPN. Utah (10-3) returns to the Rose Bowl after a second straight Pac-12 championship. The Utes ranked eighth in the FBS with 40 points per game this season under Kyle Whittingham, and…

Penn State vs Utah prediction, game preview, odds, how to watch. Rose Bowl, Monday, January 2, 2023 Date: Monday, January 2, 2023 Game Time: 5:00 ET Venue: Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA How To Watch: ESPN Record: Penn State (10-2), Utah (10-3) - - Utah keeps on rolling. This might not be quite the team the 2021 version was, but it matched last year's…

After starting the season unranked, a young and feisty Penn State squad end the season in Pasadena. (#9)Penn State (10-2, 7-2) vs. (#7)Utah (10-3, 7-2) Kickoff: 5 p.m., Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA The Betting Line: Penn State+2 (Odds/lines subject to change. T&Cs apply. See draftkings.com/sportsbook for details.) TV: ESPN, 5 p.m. - Chris Fowler…

Another season has come and gone Penn State fans. The Nittany Lions finished with double-digit wins following two subpar seasons, but with losses to Ohio State and Michigan, there's still plenty to prove in Monday's Rose Bowl. James Franklin has led the Lions to three New Year's Six Bowl games since taking over the program. He's 2-1 in those games,…

The Utah Utes (10-3) take on the Penn State Nittany Lions (10-2) in the Granddaddy of Them All- the Rose Bowl- in Bowl Season. Kickoff comes from historic and iconic Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, Calif., on Monday, Jan. 2, at 4:00 p.m. CT. This is the final Rose Bowl as we know it. The game is a College Football Playoff semifinal next season and…

Penn State and Utah meet in the Rose Bowl on January 2nd with the Utes entering as PAC-12 Champions for the second consecutive year. Cam Rising and Utah will face a surging Penn State team that finished the season on a high note and will look to send veteran quarterback Sean Clifford out on a victory. Both teams are amongst the best in the country,…

Penn State and Pitt will both be underdogs when their bowl games kick off against Pac-12 foes over the next few days, with the Nittany Lions given a bit better chance than the Panthers of closing the season on a high note. Pennsylvania's online sportsbooks generally have Penn State as a 2.5-point underdog against Utah in the Rose Bowl next Monday,…

As Penn State prepares for a trip to Pasadena, they will do so once again embracing the role of the underdog. Unfortunately for Penn State, being the underdog has not served them well this season. The Nittany Lions look to change the narrative as the underdog when they face Pac-12 champion Utah in the Rose Bowl on January 2, 2023. Penn State is a…

Penn State wasn't thrilled with its place at No. 11 in last week's College Football Playoff rankings, which gave it a puzzling New Year's 6 bowl outlook. But that outlook became more favorable after Saturday's college football schedule. Penn State did its part Saturday to clear things, defeating Michigan State 35-16 to complete a 10-2 regular…

Jim Harbaugh and the No. 5 Michigan Wolverines face a stiff test on Saturday. Michigan takes on James Franklin and the No. 10 Penn State Nittany Lions in Ann Arbor. Michigan is 15-10 all-time against Penn State, and the Wolverines are 4-3 when Harbaugh takes on Franklin. Both teams are unbeaten this season, both overall and in conference…

STATE COLLEGE - Penn State's newcomers will be celebrated on Wednesday when they sign their national letter of intent. Five days later, the coaching staff and current roster will fly to California and switch gears to preparing for the Rose Bowl. It's been a month full of multi-tasking, in-home visits and hosting last-minute official visitors.…

Kyle Whittingham is completing his 18th full season as head coach at Utah. James Franklin is completing his ninth season as head coach at Penn State. After Franklin and the Nittany Lions went 11-11 combined during 2020 and 2021, they have compiled a10-2 record this season while Whittingham and the Utes have gone 10-3. Monday, Jan. 2, 5 p.m. ET at…

Where: SHI Stadium in Piscataway, NJ Kick-off: Saturday, November 19 at 3:30 PM ET Weather: 41 degrees, sunny with a 3% chance of rain, 11 mph winds TV: BTN with Brandon Gaudin (play-by-play), Jake Butt (color), and Rick Pizzo (sideline) Radio: Radio: RWJBarnabas Health Rutgers Sports Network (WFAN 101.9 FM/660 AM, Fox Sports New Jersey 93.5…

It's tough to know when to take a team seriously, when to treat it as a true contender. Several teams climb up the polls each season, but nearly every College Football Playoff ultimately ends up with the usual suspects. Only one team in the playoff era, LSU in the 2019 season, has crashed the party and come out on top. I've been slow to see…

Every week I log into this article to enter my picks and take care of some of the miscellany that RockyMtnBlue leaves for me as part of our work on these picks articles, and every week it says "MNW wit goes here." I am really letting you all down. We're to the end of another Big Ten season, this one perhaps simultaneously dumber and more…

What an awesome week two for college football! App State is back to beating over-ranked, under-performing Power 5 programs. Speaking of Texas should've beaten Alabama but did the thing Clemson used to do. Kentucky exposed Florida. And double overtimes in Lubbock and Provo ruined our covers. What a time! I went an ever impressive 5-5, bringing the…

With Week 8 of the college football season approaching, sole possession of first place in the Big Ten West is once again up for grabs as a wonky year in one of the sport's quirkiest divisions continues. If Purdue (5-2, 3-1 Big Ten) wins as a slight underdog at Wisconsin (3-4, 1-3), the Boilermakers will sit alone atop the standings ahead…

Following an offseason that again delivered a taste of conference realignment (USC and UCLA to the Big Ten in the future) and typical college football controversy (Nick Saban and Jimbo Fisher going at it over recruiting), time has come to concentrate on what's actually going to happen on the field throughout the 2022 season. There's no better way…

Happy Thanksgiving! If you are reading this and still care deeply enough about the Michigan State football season to read a preview, I've got news for you... You are the best Spartan fan out there. A sick person, yes. But also the best Spartan fan this program could ask for. Let's get into the Happy Valley bonanza. That's Penn State's opponent…

Penn State is now less than a week away from learning where it will go in the postseason. The Lions finished the regular season at 10-2, cashing their season long win total number for bettors who backed their over of 8.5 while also seemingly securing a spot in a New Year's Six bowl matchup. "I'm really proud," James Franklin said last Saturday…

Two weeks ago, James Franklin provided a lengthy 740-word answer in response to a question about his evolved approach to fourth-down decision-making, acknowledging that there's been "a pretty significant shift" in the coaching community. But really, all Franklin had to do to explain his stance was point at the numbers. With the regular season now…

Fall is in full swing. The calendar is about to turn to November. What does that mean for the world of college football? Unexpected results. As the season heads toward the final weeks, there's bound to be surprises and head-scratching outcomes as the pressure of the College Football Playoff race and other factors cause teams to raise their level of…

The Opponent: Vanderbilt University was founded in 1873 and named after Cornelius Vanderbilt. Neil (I think we can call him that) lived a pretty amazing life, dominating land & sea shipping lanes in the second half of the 19th century. It was his second wife, also his cousin, who convinced him to donate $1 million to start Vanderbilt University. At…

There is plenty on the table for James Franklin's Penn State football team when it faces Michigan State this afternoon at Beaver Stadium. A 10-win regular season. The Land-Grant Trophy. A victory on Senior Day. A potential top-10 ranking. The 11th-ranked Nittany Lions have won their last three games and a triumph over the Spartans would give PSU a…

When Ohio State and Penn State meet Saturday afternoon, the Buckeyes will look to extend their win streak in this rivalry to six. Both teams will enter the game ranked in the AP Poll Top 25 as they have done for the past five years in the annual Big Ten East battle. We dive into the odds looking at the spreads and lines while making our picks and…

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) - James Franklin picked up his 100th career coaching victory by seeing No. 11 Penn State make big plays in every phase of the game. Sean Clifford ran for a touchdown and threw for another and the Nittany Lions scored twice on fumble returns and once on a kickoff return in beating Rutgers 55-10 Saturday. Freshman Nick Singleton…

Today's Penn State football news headlines feature a look at the Lions' potential lineup for Saturday's matchup at Rutgers, plus the latest thoughts from coach James Franklin on Manny Diaz and the progress made by his offensive line. While little has changed with official designations on Penn State's depth charts, trends are emerging going into…

Penn State's James Franklin pursues career win No. 100 in his 12 seasons as a head coach when the Nittany Lions visit Rutgers on Saturday. But the real question is whether Penn State will record consecutive shutouts for the first time under Franklin. Will it happen? To the prediction. When: 3:30 p.m. ET Saturday Where: SHI Stadium, Piscataway,…

Penn State came up short in their upset bid against Ohio State last week, will they have a letdown this week against lowly Indiana on the road? The Nittany Lions have beaten every unranked foe in their way, and now face an Indiana team that has been out of sorts all year, losers of five straight. What can we expect from the Nittany Lions after…

We are entering the final stretch for the College Football Report Card this season and while conference races are heating up, so is the play on the field - and the hot seats some coaches find themselves on. Last week's low marks went to Stanford, which has fallen to the depths of the Pac-12, with high scores going to MACtion madness on a weekday…

Welcome to Week 7 of the college football season. Each week, our VSiN experts will combine to give their best bets on select games. We had a 6-3 showing in Week 6 and we're looking to ride that momentum into Week 7. Odds are from DraftKings (unless noted) as of Wednesday night. Season record: 28-32-1 Saturday, Noon ET Wes Reynolds: FOX's "Big Noon…

No. 14 Penn State and Maryland play on Saturday, Nov. 12. The game will be live streamed on fuboTV (free trial). Maryland coach Mike Locksley reminded his players this week that their annual trip to Penn State is not a rivalry game. It's been too one-sided to look at it that way. No. 14 Penn State (7-2, 4-2 Big Ten and 14th in the College Football…

college football odds series for our Maryland Penn State prediction and pick. The Maryland Terrapins will go to a bowl game, but in a Big Ten which has been so noticeably weak, merely getting to a bowl game was not the goal for this team. Maryland and coach Mike Locksley had hoped to win eight or nine games this season and get a quality bowl bid,…

Welcome to The Top 25, a weekly rundown of the best of college football. Each week, The Baltimore Sun will break down the top games, players and teams to watch, from the Power Five to the Group of Five. Here's what to know for Week 11: No. 9 Alabama at No. 11 Ole Miss (Saturday, 3:30 p.m., CBS): This is uncharted waters for Alabama coach Nick…

Every week RockyMtnBlue asks me to "write something clever" here, and every week I am at a complete loss for what to do. This website is making me dumber. Anyway onto our picks. Seamless transition. (all times CT) Straight-Up: All Death Star Against the Spread: Indiana 8-6 MaximumSam: WEATHER CHECK Columbus should be around 40 degrees with mild…

Maryland football (6-3, 3-3 Big Ten) looks to rebound in a major way Saturday, but it won't be easy. The Terps will travel to iconic Beaver Stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania, to take on the No. 14Penn State Nittany Lions. In their last showing, the Terps came out flat, falling to the Wisconsin Badgers, 23-10, on the road. Wisconsin junior…

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Maryland coach Mike Locksley reminded his players this week that their annual trip to Penn State is not a rivalry game. It's been too one-sided to look at it that way. "Obviously, we have to compete a little better to get it to that point," Locksley said. "It's an opportunity for us to see where we line up and see how we…

There are a lot of Sean Clifford types playing quarterback in the Big Ten this season, tough-minded battlers who can't quite lift their team to a next level or a signature win. Known names, seemingly around forever, racking up stats and eclipsing program records. Several of them, like Clifford, will finally age out of college football after this…

Penn State's James Franklin and Maryland's Mike Locksley have worked together and recruited together, so it's no surprise that they occasionally think alike. Take their views on rivalries. Franklin goes out of his way to avoid even using the term. Though Locksley isn't afraid to say the word rivalry, he's clear to point out this Penn State-Maryland…

The Ohio State Buckeyes take on the Penn State Nittany Lions. Check out our college football odds series for our Ohio State Penn State prediction and pick. This season in the Big Ten has been predictable in some ways, unpredictable in others. The predictable part has been that Ohio State and Michigan have established themselves at the top of the…

Week 9 of the college football schedule is here and now it's time to make our betting picks against the spread for the top games Lines courtesy of SI Sportsbook No. 2 Ohio State (-15.5) at No. 13 Penn State. By far the toughest team on OSU's schedule to date, Penn State boasts a gifted run stop, but its consistency against quality competition is in…