Penn State vs. Indiana Tailgate Show
The Penn State Football team will try to rebound against Indiana on Saturday afternoon when they host the Hoosiers at Beaver Stadium. The Nittany Lions are 6-1, coming off their first loss of the season to Ohio State, while Indiana is winless in conference play. Join the Penn State Football Tailgate Show live outside the Bryce Jordan Center at 9 a.m. as we preview the game. Former Penn State defensive tackle Aeneaas Hawkins will give his thoughts on the matchup and how Penn State can improve.
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Penn State vs. Indiana Preview
With the Nittany Lion’s struggles on offense last week, we’ll focus mainly on the offense and how things can improve on that side of the ball. The defense allowed only 20 points to one of the most dangerous teams in the country, so we’ll discuss them, but the spotlight will be on Drew Allar and his teammates.
Most importantly, can Penn State regain their identity? Head coach James Franklin thinks they got away from it last week.
“Yeah, I think we talked about staying true to our identity, and I thought we got a little bit away from that at times.”
“Somebody asked me earlier about our goal line package that we’ve been using, the three running backs and things like that that have been very successful in short yardage. We kind of got away from that.”
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While Franklin acknowledged that Penn State’s identity is grounded in the run game, his main point was that they are an efficient team.
“I thought our identity was staying on schedule converting on third downs and then either converting on third downs or going for it on fourth down situations. I feel like that had been our identity for the season,” Franklin said
“We have a lot of respect for their short-yardage defense and how they were defending it, but we did not do that. We did not either convert on third downs like we had been doing or put us in a situation where we were in fourth and short to go for it.”
Penn State has a chance to redeem itself in the final month of the season, playing Maryland and Michigan after this home date with Indiana.
