After yet another episode of what-the-hell-just-happened-out-there, Ohio State and Penn State and the 110,889 screamers who watched them in Beaver Stadium on Saturday night departed the premises in various stages of wooziness. 4 Ohio State had won 27-26 after both a comeback and a strand of 2017 rerun — in a different setting, with some different actors. Penn State Coach James Franklin vehemently pegged his program as “great” but not “elite” and said: “We have gotten comfortable being great! Almost all the way to Penn State’s last, feckless, stuffed run on fourth and five from the Ohio State 43-yard line, which came after a Penn State timeout, then an Ohio State timeout, then another Penn State timeout, all with 82 seconds left, the game had been something of a recital. Before any of that, two offenses averaging 55.5 points (Penn State) and 54.5 points (Ohio State) had gotten stuck in the muddle for a while, as if facing unusual resistance.

Source: Washington Post September 30, 2018 04:07 UTC