Ben Jones

Penn State football has — perhaps the surprise of some — won 11 games four out of the last seven years. It’s a mark that generally ranks among the best in the sport and while the COVID-19 season and the 2021 campaign lacked (for various reasons) the quality Penn State fans have come to expect,…

PASADENA, Calif. —It’s not as though Penn State’s true freshman running back Nicholas Singleton was an unknown entity. The physical speedster had been giving defensive coordinators night terrors for the better part of the 2022 season between a combination of deceptive toughness and blazing home run speed. But even onlookers who knew what to expect…

PASADENA, Calif. — It all started against Ohio State as Penn State rolled out a t-formation look that would make the oldest football coaches in America cry with joy. Forget all the fancy things about offensive football in this day and age, here’s some good old fashion physical pigskin. And it has worked like a…

Penn State and Utah will take the field on Monday afternoon in Pasadena for the last “normal” Rose Bowl in the pre playoff expansion era. That will one day become a piece of trivia for college football fans many years from now, but in the meanwhile plenty of narratives and storylines will shape Penn State…

It has been a strange season to measure for Penn State. The Nittany Lions beat everyone they should have and lost to the two teams who have become — or have always been — the main impediment to greater success. As a result James Franklin and his forever-quarterback Sean Clifford simultaneously did quite a lot…