![]() Penn State leads 10-3 with half of the second quarter to play. Rising star Brenton Strange, maybe the team's most improved player, had a reception wiped out by a penalty. Minnesota, Lion tight ends have caught three passes, including a wide-open, 38-yard catch-and-run for third-string Tyler Warren.Įarlier, Theo Johnson had his first two big receptions of the season. What a change for the offense and quarterback Sean Clifford and coordinator Mike Yurcich. Penn State apparently has one of the top-talented tight end rooms in the Big Ten, if not the country. He's 12-of-17 passing for 175 yards and two touchdowns. Suddenly, Clifford looks like an efficient QB again. The killer was yet another tight end strike, this time a touchdown down the middle to Theo Johnson. Sean Clifford found one tight end throwing, then another, then Penn State scored a touchdown.Īnd then everything appeared to suddenly work better: the running of Kaytron Allen, a trick play to rookie Omari Evans, a beauty of a sideline throw-and-catch to Mitch Tinsley. Boos to cheers, Sean Clifford, offense re-invent themselves ![]() Its tight ends had four first-half catches for 99 yards, which sparked the entire attack. Penn State, meanwhile, must continue to build on its sudden offensive diversity. His 18 first-half carries for 68 yards is below his impressive standards, at least for now. Ibrahim has struggled to get untracked but he will keep pounding. And the Gophers get the ball back to start the second half. The Mo Ibrahim TD run cut the Penn State lead to 17-10. Lions lose one of their own: Former Penn State linebacker Bani Gbadyu dies after recent cancer diagnosis No matter, they need to run the ball behind QB Athan Kaliakmanis making his first college start during a White Out. The Gophers have only 45 passing yards through two quarters − 33 on that one play. The play immediately ignited Minnesota's lost offense and it promptly ran itself down the field and drove in a touchdown just before halftime. The best probably was Mitch Tinsley's sideline catch in the first half, one he pulled in with just one hand. Has a Penn State receiver won one jump-ball pass all season? We don't think so. 1 receiver boxed out his defender, leaped and held onto a stunning catch for a 24-10 lead. Sean Clifford, under duress, chucked the ball high and long in the direction of Parker Washington in the end zone. It was the kind of play Penn State has simply not produced all season. Sean Clifford to Parker Washington, unreal Penn State leads 31-10 with more than four minutes left in the third quarter. He and Kaytron Allen were beginning to steamroll the Minnesota defense, Allen approaching 100 rushing yards on the night. Singleton accelerated and cruised into the end zone. A perfectly-executed run play to Nick Singleton left open space to cover to his left. A pass interference penalty, though, was a killer for Minnesota (8 penalties overall, 52 yards). The Lions promptly drove the field with short passes and some tough running. That was bringing down a high snap and simply handing it off to sports car, Nick Singleton. He fired a completion to tight end Theo Johnson, for sure. Rookie Drew Allar took over at quarterback to the fans' delight with about nine minutes to play tonight. Drew Allar in relief, Nick Singleton runs it up The Lions improve to 6-1 and should move up a bit in the Top 20 before super-star Ohio State comes to Beaver Stadium next Saturday. But he only completed 9-of-22 passes and couldn't begin to keep Minnesota running even in the White Out. ![]() He hung in, too, to his credit and never folded. Meanwhile, Penn State's defense harassed Gophers' rookie QB Athan Kaliakmanis from beginning to end in his first college start. Rookie running backs Kaytron Allen and Nick Singleton combined for 156 rushing yards and the Lions piled up 479 overall. The Nittany Lions sprinted away from Minnesota, 45-17.Ĭlifford produced a highly-efficent 23-of-31 passing effort for 295 yards and four touchdowns with just that one early interception. Who would have predicted what we saw tonight after a dreadful first quarter?īut Sean Clifford and this stuck-in-the-mud offense freed itself and revved the rest of the night against a beaten up but hard-fighting Minnesota Golden Gophers team.Ĭlifford hung in and began rifling passes to his forgotten tight ends and his scoreless No. Watch Video: Penn State defense returns to form in White Out win over Minnesota Sean Clifford and Penn State offense rises up, recovers, dominatesĪnother distasteful beginning was wiped away and forgotten with the victory fireworks and smoke that ended a late-night Penn State performance. ![]()
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