Ben Jones

Heading into a Week 5 meeting with Indiana, Penn State has played just enough football that the Nittany Lions’ strengths and weaknesses are becoming more apparent with each passing quarter. Of course still somewhat early in the year, this can change again in time. Penn State has only played one game so far this season…

Penn State interior defensive lineman Hakeem Beamon will not play this season for the Nittany Lions, according to coach James Franklin. “He’ll be unavailable this weekend and this season,” Franklin said on Wednesday evening following practice. “I think at practice, Hakeem loves football, at practice he’s always good because he loves football. But he’ll be…

Nittany Lion offensive lineman Eric Wilson is a smart guy. After all he went to Harvard before transferring to Penn State this past offseason, so he knows his stuff. And if there was ever a lineman who could look like someone who once went to Harvard it’s Wilson. He’s tall, strong but unassuming and babyfaced…

Don’t call it a revenge game. “The only people that I ever hear use those terms is, you know, when I get a question like this,” Penn State coach James Franklin said on Tuesday when asked about revenge games. “We go back and watch our tape and learn from it and make corrections, but our…

As you may have noticed Penn State is the fourth-ranked team in the nation. Whether or not the Nittany Lions are the fourth-best team in the nation is very much up for debate. Either way, the nice thing about having a schedule is that these things tend to sort themselves out. There’s no real reason…

Penn State football’s total wins matches its ranking in the latest AP Poll released on Sunday afternoon with the Nittany Lions slotted at the No. 4 spot, jumping up two places from No. 6 last week. It’s the highest ranking for the program since the 2017 season. Now the highest ranked team in the Big…

Offense: A/B/C? I think Penn State’s own offense doesn’t really know what to think of this game. Jahan Dotson and Parker Washington did their thing with KeAndre Lamber-Smith adding in his own 83-yard touchdown. Dotson and Parker each had over 100 yards receiving while the later had two touchdowns to his name while Dotson scored…

There is something hilarious about the juxtaposition of Penn State’s offense. On the one hand the Nittany Lion offense is something of a revival of fan favorites. Penn State goes under center. It pulls off quarterback sneaks. It uses a tight end as a fullback in a strange wildcat package. At times it looks like…