Week Seven Recap and Reactions: Franklin Out and the New State of Football
Inside The Pylon: A Midwest College Football Podcast · Ryan Satkowiak
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Show Notes
Another monster week and another slate of games that more than lived up to the hype. Halfway through the college football season, and we are beginning to see teams separate themselves into different tiers.
Despite the massive slate of games, the major story of the weekend was once again Penn State -- both for what happened during the day Saturday and what has come since. The Nittany Lions lost as 20+ point favorites for the second consecutive weekend, this time to Northwestern, to fall to 3-3 on the season. They are still winless in Big Ten play. And this latest failure was the straw the broke the camel's back, as the school announced Sunday morning that they have fired head coach James Franklin. Lost in the game was also starting QB Drew Allar -- who sustained a lower leg injury late in the game, and whom Franklin announced post-game would miss the rest of the season. How did we get here and where to the Lions go next?
On the field, after a season of beating bad teams and getting beat badly by good ones, Indiana took pot shots throughout the offseason yet gave it back 10-fold with a massive statement win, 30-20, at Oregon. The Hoosiers dominated both lines of scrimmage, and their defense kept Dante Moore in check almost the entire game. They are for real, but can the Hoosiers challenge Ohio State -- who handily dispatched Illinois, 34-16 -- for the Big Ten title?
Also out west, USC made its own statement with a throttling of Michigan. Was this a flash in the pan, or can the Trojans parlay this style into next weekend in South Bend, against an improving Notre Dame team that handled NC State, 36-7?
Elsewhere in the league, Nebraska engineered another come-from-behind victory, this time against Maryland. UCLA might be a wagon. and Luke Fickell and Jonathan Smith appear to be in a competition to see whose seat can get the hottest.
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