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Report: Kalani Sitake Staying At BYU
Penn State and Pat Kraft has swung and missed — badly — as BYU’s Kalani Sitake has reportedly turned down Penn State and is staying at BYU. Lucrative contract, increased infrastructure, blah, blah, blah — WHATEVER, this is a terrible look for Pat Kraft. To get to this point in the search, to identify Sitake, […]
Penn State Basketball Preview: Campbell
Penn State will close out its three-game home swing with its second ever meeting against Campbell. The Nittany Lions have one final tune-up before Big Ten play begins next week against Indiana. How to Watch Who: Campbell Fighting CamelsNET Ranking (PSU): 245 (83)Kenpom Ranking (PSU): 213 (98)When: Tuesday, December 2Where: Bryce Jordan Center, State College, […]
The 4 Things from an Eventful Last Week of the Regular Season
Ohio State Might Just be Invincible If you happen to be facing the Buckeyes in the postseason, how exactly do you attack them? It’s truly difficult to identify any weaknesses for Ohio State after they wrapped up the season 12-0 by demolishing rival Michigan. First off, there doesn’t seem to be an offense with the […]
Blessed & Honored: Four More Recruits Flip to Virginia Tech
Troy Huh Flips to Virginia Tech Four-star 2026 quarterback Troy Huhn will follow James Franklin to Virginia Tech: Huhn decommitted from Penn State on October 16. His recruitment was quiet until Virginia Tech offered him on November 17. He visited Blacksburg for the Hokies’ final home game against Miami and made the call for Virginia […]
This Week in Happy Valley: Allen’s Big Day
A flight was scheduled from Columbus to State College today. Long snapper Tyler Duzansky was named a finalist for the Patrick Mannelly Award. Kaytron Allen won Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week for the third straight week. The men’s hockey team remains at No. 9 in the USCHO Poll. The No. 4 women’s hockey […]
Nittany Lions in the NFL 2025: Week 13
Here’s a list of the current Nittany Lions in the NFL listed by 53-man roster: *Just a reminder that again this season, I will not include players like Juwan Johnson and KeAndre Lambert-Smith that did not finish their college career at Penn State* Arizona Cardinals: Blake Gillikin, PJ Mustipher Atlanta Falcons: Arnold Ebiketie Baltimore Ravens: […]
Report: Penn State Focused On Kalani Sitake
Are we nearing the end of Penn State’s coaching search? Well, it seems like the Penn State brass sure hopes so as ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported Monday evening that BYU’s Kalani Sitake is “the focus” of Penn State’s search. While Thamel says in the story that “no deal has been signed yet,” he does mention […]
Big Ten Power Rankings – Week 14
Hello there and welcome to the Big Ten Power Rankings! Each week we’ll rank how the teams across the conference are playing, in the hopes of seeing just who is a contender, and who is a pretender over the course of the season. The rules are few, but resolute: Teams are ranked by how they’re […]
BSD MVP Rutgers: Kaytron Allen
This has become a regularly scheduled post – Kaytron Allen was the standout player on Saturday for Penn State. It happened again in his last regular season game in a Nittany Lion uniform as Allen saved his best rushing performance for his final game. Allen averaged better than 10 yards a carry on his way […]
Big Ten Superlatives: Week 14
Amazingly, the college football regular season has now come to its conclusion. It’s been a struggle for this writer to highlight the exciting and interesting each week when Penn State has had the season it had. But, there are a lot of interesting things happening in the league – including a No. 1 vs. No. […]
MMQB – And Now We Wait
Penn State defeated Rutgers (somehow) over the weekend, 40-36, and finishes the 2025 regular season 6-6. And now we wait. First, we’ll be waiting to see where the Lions go bowling. With their win they secured bowl eligibility, and I have no reason to think the administration would turn down an opportunity to go to […]
Poll Watch: The Last Rankings Before Everything is Decided
Penn State is now bowl-eligible, and the top Big Ten teams lead both the Coaches Poll and the Associated Press ranking. Ohio State remained at No. 1 in both polls, with other conference teams Indiana (2nd in both polls) Oregon (Up to 4th in both polls), USC (17th in both polls), and Michigan (18th in […]
BSD YouTube Show: Recapping Rutgers & Penn State’s Coaching Search
Penn State got bowl eligible yesterday as it took down Rutgers 40-36 in a back-and-forth thriller. We’ll recap the game — and season — before discussing where Penn State is at in the coaching search. We’ll be live at 2 p.m. EST. Come join!
Position Grades: Rutgers
Well, another regular season has come and gone. I don’t know about you, but I want to be able to hop in a time machine and go tell myself from three months ago how the 2025 season played out and see my past self’s reaction. Given what a rollercoaster this season ended up being, perhaps […]
Penn State Gets Past Rutgers for Sixth Win: Post-Game Link Dump
It was Nicholas Singleton’s turn to rearrange the record books, becoming the all-time touchdowns leader in program history. Penn State outlasted a feisty Rutgers squad thanks to big days from Andrew Rappleyea, Amare Campbell and Ryan Barker. Ethan Grunkemeyer once again proved he has a bright future under center. It didn’t come easy, but the […]
They Play One More
When Rutgers was announced as one of the expansion teams back in 2012, the Scarlet Knights were coming off their most successful stint in the Big East, under Greg Schiano’s first term, then under Kyle Flood. This led to some of their fans, the loud ones, to proclaim they’d compete in the Big Ten. We […]
Penn State Football Head Coaching Search: News & Notes (11.30.25)
With the regular season now officially over, this gives us the perfect time to take a look at the happenings on the coaching search front. To his credit, Pat Kraft has kept a lid on this thing from the jump, and even more so now. While Penn State has been a program mentioned for a […]
Penn State 90, Sacred Heart 59: Lions Maul Pioneers
While most of you were nervously watching Penn State’s football team earn bowl eligibility against Rutgers, the basketball team was busy taking care of business against a Sacred Heart team they were a 15-point favorite against. Both teams took turns exchanging buckets in the first five minutes, with Sacred Heart taking a 9-8 lead with […]
Penn State 40, Rutgers 36: Into The Great Unkown
In a fitting end to a ridiculous and hopefully soon-to-be-forgotten season, Penn State football marched into Piscataway and fended off Rutgers in an unlikely shootout. If it wants to go to one, Penn State will get invited to a bowl game. Terry Smith, who was fired up and emotional on the sideline following the final […]
Three Takeaways From Penn State’s 40-36 Win Over Rutgers
1) The next record Kaytron Allen got his last week. It was Nicholas Singleton’s turn this week. With the second touchdown of the Nittany Lions’ day, Singleton became the all-time touchdown leader at 54. He added another one for good measure late in the third quarter. 2) Defense optional Neither team could get a handle […]
Late Games Open Thread
Rivalry week baby!
Penn State-Rutgers Fourth Quarter Open Thread
Four fingers in the air!
YAY HOOPS(?): Penn State vs. Sacred Heart Open Thread
The Nittany Lions face Sacred Heart for their second straight game in the BJC. The Pioneers are coached by Anthony Latina. The game will be streamed on Peacock at 6:00 PM. If you haven’t done so already, check out our preview. As always, the usual open thread rules apply: Don’t link to any streams, don’t post […]
Penn State-Rutgers Third Quarter Open Thread
Halfway home!
Penn State-Rutgers Second Quarter Open Thread
One quarter is in the books, let’s keep it going!
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