Here's what's wrong with the Penn State red zone offense
The Penn State offense ventured into the Ohio State red zone three times last Saturday in its loss to Ohio State and came away with only one score. That score, a Ryan Barker 29-yard field goal, came on the team's opening possession of the game. Meaning that the Penn State offense scored 50% of its points only six minutes and fifty-four seconds into the game. Naturally, when failures like that happen on the biggest stages, overreaction is natural. Issues turn into full-blown anger and sweeping generalizations about the Penn State offense. So today, let's look at the facts and try to answer two questions. Does Penn State have a red zone scoring problem, and if so, what's the root cause?