College Football Playoffs

No. 6 seed Penn State slowed down Boise State’s star running back Ashton Jeanty and turned in a strong ground game of its own to defeat the No. 3 seed Broncos 31-14 Tuesday night in a College Football Playoff quarterfinal at the Fiesta Bowl. The Nittany Lions now will head to the Orange Bowl on…

Penn State entered the locker room with a 17-7 halftime lead over Boise State and a looming question mark entering the final two quarters of Tuesday’s Fiesta Bowl. Will standout defensive end Abdul Carter return to action? Carter, who was named the Big Ten’s defensive player of the year this season, was banged up on…

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. — The sun sets over the Camelback Mountain and leaves a cool breeze in its wake. The desert is quiet, for now. But on Tuesday, it will erupt in a frenzy. The College Football Playoff has made its way west, where Penn State and Boise State will face off in the Fiesta…

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. — James Franklin held a Penn State helmet and posed for a picture alongside Boise State’s Spencer Danielson. Between the two coaches was the coveted Fiesta Bowl trophy. Franklin and Danielson are at different points in their careers, they run programs on opposite sides of the country and play in two incomparable…

Two days out from Penn State’s College Football Playoff quarterfinal against Boise State, the Nittany Lions made their way under sunny Arizona skies to the JW Marriott Camelback Inn for Fiesta Bowl media day activities on Sunday morning. After Nittany Lion players and coaches took questions in press conferences and one-on-one interviews, they headed to…

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz — David Dunn didn’t know how much weight he could bench until he attempted his limit. That’s from the movie, “Unbreakable,” a scene Penn State offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki connects to the ups and downs of a football season. That a team does not know how much adversity it can withstand until…

Tom Allen has coached against one running back that even remotely compares to Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty. That would be Derrick Henry, the Baltimore Ravens’ star who won the Heisman Trophy at Alabama in 2015. Jeanty, himself, nearly won a Heisman this season. He didn’t, but remains one of the nation’s top overall players and…