It took way longer than expected due to some early game
jitters by Christian Hackenberg in his Beaver Stadium debut, but eventually he
settled down and the blowout was on as Penn
State cruises 45-7 over Eastern Michigan .
Tyler Ferguson didn't get as many in-game reps as many would've hoped
for, but he did get some playing time late in the 4th including a
nice strike to Geno Lewis and a handoff to Akeel Lynch for a late touchdown.
As for my prediction, I was off by a touchdown and I figured
the defense would give up at least 2 FGs in garbage time; I was very wrong. Instead, the defense did not allow a single
point all game (EMU’s 7 points came on a fumble returned for a TD), and the
offense exploded in the second half putting up 45 unanswered points on the
hapless Eagles. I did call Hackenberg
for a 300+ yd game, and although I nailed Robinson and Belton for 100+ yd
games, it was Akeel Lynch who secured the 100 yd hat-trick for PSU, not Zwinak. Still, Zwinak did “make it a double” as I
predicted, so I doubt he’s too upset. It
was awesome to see the #HackRobConnection (trademark!) in full swing, but they
only managed 1 of the TDs I predicted.
And finally, a big hand to Belton who ran for a personal record 108 yds
and had 2 TDs to my predicted 1.
Things are looking really good for the night game against
UCF next week, but overall the team needs to clean up the mistakes if they hope
to beat the Golden Knights.
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