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Saturday Buzz: Pick USC-Penn State Score After Washington Demolished

Did you watch Iowa demolish Washington?

Now those of you who think I grade USC harshly in my report cards know why. That win over Washington wasn’t impressive in any way.

Washington had minus-3 yards rushing against Iowa. The Huskies had 116 yards rushing against USC.

So what is your score prediction now for the Penn State game? Penn State has over 110,000 tickets out for the game.

Pete Thamel reports “WR Trent Mosley and DT Jide Abasiri are considered true game-time decisions. They’ll warm up at Penn State and try to go. TE Mark Bowman is also expected to attempt to play, but there’s less optimism.”

Post your score prediction here.

13 thoughts on “Saturday Buzz: Pick USC-Penn State Score After Washington Demolished”

    1. Hope you are wrong, brother. This season like so many other seasons, has been nauseating. At some level, you just want it to be over, despite the fact that I am a 60-plus year fan (first game was in 1967, I was 9 then). Where is the Pepto-Bismol?

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      1. Just thinking of all of the games over the years all the way back to then where you want to reach for that anti-acid/nausea (referring to the ones that got away … starting in ’67 with that 0-3 egg laid in the Corvallis mudhole).

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  2. DON: It looked like Oregon was working over Bowman, and now we know

    KAM: Iowa’s slaughter of Washington takes the bloom off of SC’s Huskies’ victory.

    DON: But every football game plays out differently and the Penn St game could go either way

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  3. It should be USC 31 PSU 20

    but I worry it will be PSU 24 USC 16

    And Udub lost their QB at end of the first half against Iowa, he is literally their entire offense.

    The problem with USC is that they may be the most underperforming team in P4. Lots of talent, lots of confusion on defense, lots of mistakes, lots of a lot of bad stuff.

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    1. Agreed ’67 – cause just can’t get rid of the Wileystone around their neck … average competent coach at USC and this team is a 2 -3 loss team at worst and maybe squeaks into the playoff (over the mandatory SEC/ESPN howling) … good coach, 1 or 2 loss team possibly with a bye and a slight shot … great coach, 0 or 1 losses (they are not perfect – there are holes in the roster due to Miley’s recruiting/portal focus – but a great head coach necessarily entails a great staff, so someone coaching up the existing players to a much higher level of performance and competitiveness) and a real shot. Great coach with another year to work on improving the roster through recruiting/portal – 0 losses and a favorite to win the championship. The talent base USC has is still the biggest advantage in all of collegiate football, despite the $ being thrown away at programs like Texas Tech (not to mention the Ohio States and Alabamas and Texases).

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  5. KAM: We already know Ohio St is beatable. Now Indiana is having gobs of travel in Nebraska. SC can beat these teams

    DON: Hold your horses, SC first has to get through Penn St

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  8. DON: Indiana went from a 75% favorite down to a 33% favorite after one-half with Nebraska

    KAM: But you know how odds can radically change with one score

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