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Jason1743

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What kind of crowd can we expect? There seem to be a lot of inexpensive tickets for sale. Cold, rainy, dark late November game with school not in session./Thanksgiving weekend.
 
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Nitwit said:
With a 4pm start, a 50% chance of showers, and cold temperatures, the offense may have to rely on PSU exploiting MSU’s weak run defense. I’d look for some conservative power football with the two backs up the middle and those dreaded sideline passes of two yards by SC early on to try to put together some offensive drives. MSU may overcommit to try to stop the run and hopefully we can break off one or two long TD runs. If the defense can keep up the stellar play we’ve seen the past few weeks and hold the Spartans off the scoreboard early on, and they should, the game is ours. We just need to avoid coughing up turnovers with a wet ball, overthrown passes by a adrenaline fueled QB playing his final home game, or muffed punt returns giving up a short field. Make MSU work for every yard in front of a hostile crowd and tough weather conditions and dominate the line of scrimmage. Easy Peasy right?
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Don't know about a hostile crowd - aren't the students out on break?
 
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Jason1743 said:
What kind of crowd can we expect? There seem to be a lot of inexpensive tickets for sale. Cold, rainy, dark late November game with school not in session./Thanksgiving weekend.
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Attendance will probably be low, in the 90,000 range with the students gone for break.
 
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Nitwit said:
With a 4pm start, a 50% chance of showers, and cold temperatures, the offense may have to rely on PSU exploiting MSU’s weak run defense. I’d look for some conservative power football with the two backs up the middle and those dreaded sideline passes of two yards by SC early on to try to put together some offensive drives. MSU may overcommit to try to stop the run and hopefully we can break off one or two long TD runs. If the defense can keep up the stellar play we’ve seen the past few weeks and hold the Spartans off the scoreboard early on, and they should, the game is ours. We just need to avoid coughing up turnovers with a wet ball, overthrown passes by a adrenaline fueled QB playing his final home game, or muffed punt returns giving up a short field. Make MSU work for every yard in front of a hostile crowd and tough weather conditions and dominate the line of scrimmage. Easy Peasy right?
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We’re screwed. 😞
 
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Nitwit said:
First - I don’t bet. But I find this line out of whack. MSU put up a ton of yards on Indiana last weekend in a loosing effort. They doubled Indiana’s offense. I don’t know how they managed to lose that game in double overtime but they did. I know Indiana stinks, but still. MSU needs to win to become bowl eligible so I wouldn’t count on them rolling over in this game unless the score gets out of hand early on but that doesn’t seem to be PSU’s MO lately. MSU has wins against Illinois and Wisconsin this year. And this being Clifford’s last game at the Beav gives me an uneasy feeling that he might be a little too amped up with adrenaline early on and maybe not his sharpest self. All that combined with our lingering injuries lead me to believe that MSU might just give us a scare. I think we can win this game because it’s a home game, and in fact MSU is just not all that good and it’s sort of a revenge game for us from last season, but not by 18 points. I can see maybe PSU 35 MSU 21 with the game close until the 4th quarter. What do ya think?
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Michigan State gave up 257 yards rushing to and Indiana team that can't throw the ball. Indiana ran the ball 44 plays and threw it 7 times. I believe Indiana is the worst rushing team in the Big 10 and PSU is near the top.

When you look at it in this light you can see how the line is what it is.

That being said....MSU QB and WR 's move the ball at times.
 
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Jerademan said:
It is hard for me to understand why we keep losing to OSU in the 4th quarter. The only thing that I can think of is that they have overall better talent and they wear us down towards the end of a game. I think we are getting closer this season and maybe next year will put us on equal footing. The issue though is that we play in Columbus and we tend not to score too many points there.

The Michigan loss was a combination of being overpowered on both sides of the line due to size differences, and Michigan taking advantage of our poor defensive coverage over the middle of the field. I believe Diaz won't allow the latter to happen next season, but until we get bigger linemen, will the same happen next year? We should beat Michigan next season as we do have overall equal talent, but play at Beaver Stadium. OSU, could be a different story.
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It might help if team PSU spent less time talking smack and strutting, while focusing more on the task at hand.......
 
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LionJim said:
Clifford caught on the sideline saying, “We need to beat the spread. We need a touchdown,” before the last TD.
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Ha. Funny.
Part of any psu handicap should be Franklin's penchant for piling on when he is up in the 4th quarter. I think he is very aware of the spread.
 
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Nittany.Lion said:
Reported attendance is 105k
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Hahaha! Did you even see the student section or the south east side of the lower section of the stadium? My sister is a Blue Band alumni member and they were begging them to enter for free to try to fill the empty seats.
 
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PSU12046 said:
Hahaha! Did you even see the student section or the south east side of the lower section of the stadium? My sister is a Blue Band alumni member and they were begging them to enter for free to try to fill the empty seats.
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I guess I should have put reported in quotes so you wouldn't have gotten the idea that believed it. The attendance was clearly much higher than someone's early guess of 65k.
 
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