BWI Live: How did Penn State RT Nolan Rucci play against Minnesota? Playoff picture update
The Penn State Nittany Lions Football team found its spot in the latest College Football Playoff rankings last night, and the news is as good as you could want. The team remained fourth in the among the top 25 teams in college football after a narrow 26-25 win over Minnesota on Saturday.
Why are the Nittany Lions still so high on the list? Also, how can the team close out the season strong against Maryland this weekend? We’re discussing how the team replaces several key players who were lost for the season against the Gophers on today’s show. Join the BWI Live Wednesday show at 10 a.m. on YouTube to get your questions and comments in the live chat!
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Penn State remains static in the CFP
Penn State got more good news on Tuesday night when the College Football Playoff committee kept the team in their fourth-place spot. While some argued that Notre Dame should leapfrog the Nittany Lions after an impressive victory over Army, the committee disagreed.
We’ll discuss what that means for the team heading into the last week of the regular season, where there are still faint hopes for the Big Ten title game up for grabs if things play out a certain way. However, with that being an unlikely outcome, we’ll discuss the current picture of where the team would land in the playoff, given the current seeding.
Top 10
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Strength of Schedule
CFP Top 25 SOS ranking
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Alabama needs a prayer
Tide can make the CFP but needs help
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3 ACC teams in CFP?
Path for ACC outlined
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Taco Bell offers Oklahoma
Brent Venables story pays dividends
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New CFP Top 25
College Football Playoff rankings revealed
Is this an ideal scenario for Penn State to make a deep run?
Final week of football
But with that news still on the horizon, the game at hand matters the most. Penn State faces Maryland this weekend and will try to secure it’s first 11-1 season under head coach James Franklin. The team holds practice on Wendesday afternoon and we’ll preview the information we’d like to gather during the last open viewing of the team’s work for the 2024 regular season.
Which players need to be healthy for the stretch run? We’ll give our thoughts about what we want to hear from Franklin after practice.
Sunday Film Study
Finally, we’ll review how Penn State handled the loss of Anthony Donkoh in-game by examining the effect that backup right tackle Nolan Rucci had on the game. We’ll give an overview of how he performed and discuss the potential scenarios of how the team will replace Alonzo Ford at defensive tackle.
