Mike Poorman

It’s Day 15…and counting…since James Franklin axed Mike Yurcich as the Nittany Lions’ offensive coordinator, the second consecutive firing in 1,038 days by CJF of an OC he also hired. Tick, tick, tick. That was two victories by a 69-6 margin, 908 yards of offense, 2 x 100-yard rushers in 1 game, and 15 explosive…

DETROIT — It was late Friday night outside of Ford Field when several players on the victorious Nittany Lion football team were saying their final goodbyes to friends and family in the post-game giddiness of a dominating 42-0 victory over Michigan State as their teammates boarded a long row of buses destined for the Detroit…

We interrupt this All-22 of Penn State’s 24-15 loss to the Harbaugh-less Michigan Wolverines to bring you the All-22 on the firing on Sunday of (former) Nittany Lion quarterback coach and offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich by head coach James Franklin. And off we go: 1. Franklin is big on acting quickly to change a narrative…

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The Drew Allar that Penn State and James Franklin and Mike Yurcich thought they were getting when the five-star QB from Medina, Ohio, first arrived on campus last January came out of his shell in a big way on Saturday — 201 miles from Beaver Stadium, in the D.C. suburbs, of…

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Penn State fans are seeing red after the Nittany Lions lost 20-12 to the Buckeyes in The Horseshoe. Again. This century, Penn State is a woeful 5-18 against its next-door neighbors, and just 1-11 since PSU beat OSU in 2011 in the Battle of Interim Head Coaches — Tom Bradley vs. Luke…

Drew Allar of Medina, Ohio, who will start for the seventh-ranked Nittany Lions on Saturday vs. third-ranked Ohio State in Ohio Stadium, is just the latest in a rapidly growing line of high-caliber quarterbacks from the Buckeye State who chose to play their college football in Pennsylvania. That’s a lot of Ohio’s in one sentence…

It is Ohio State Week. It’s so big, it deserves its own All-22. Here we go: 1. This is Game No. 121 of James Franklin’s career at Penn State — and the most important. He is 4-14 vs. Ohio State and Michigan, and just as stunning is his 1-5 record against those two teams in the…

EVANSTON, Ill. — Sometimes the journey is better than the destination. For the Nittany Lions on Saturday against Northwestern, it was a stop on the road to what they hope is much bigger — and better —in 2023. So far, that journey has them at No. 6 in the country and 5-0 and — and,…