January 6, 2023 Steveo’s Salvos: TCU win – monopoly breaker; History “un-Hatched” before our eyes; “All’s fair in college football and war”; Coach leads lesson lacking loyalty; OC carousel at WKU; Tale of two QBs; Power Five against Group of Five; Awakening; C-USA makes our day at night; and more

If TCU, unranked in the preseason polls, bests Georgia this Monday night, it could not be a better scenario for college football…Coach Hatcher influenced the careers of the two college football coaches leading their teams into Sofi Stadium Monday night…What bothers us about Fickell?… Helton’s got a successful system and knows how to develop a pipeline…We see what Kiper doesn’t…We want more bowls pitting the Group against Power…The SunBelt improves…new TV contract for CUSA midweek games

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Game 639: Nittany Lions Roar past Auburn Tigers with run game and takeaways

The Penn State Nittany Lions displayed an improved running game at Auburn averaging 6.3 yards per carry with all five TDs of the rushing variety.  Their bend-but-not-break-defense intercepted two passes and recovered two fumbles on the way to achieving a 41-12 victory over Auburn.

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Game 636: Late scores in two halves propel Penn State past Purdue in Big Ten openers

With 2:27 left, Clifford displayed the reason why his Head Coach relied on his sixth season of experience.  On this last sequence of plays, he completed five of his next six passes including a 27 yarder to Tinsley to get to Purdue’s 10.  His next throw went to Lee who swung out behind the Boilermakers’ left side uncovered to grab Clifford’s lofted pass for the winning score. 

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Preseason preview with Justcollegfootball.net; Penn State – Purdue; Alabama-Utah State previews

Listen to our preseason podcast with Stephen Hiegel of Just College football and read our previews of games we’re attending this week: Penn State at Purdue on Thursday followed by Utah State at Alabama Saturday night.

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2022 season preview: Collegefootballfan.com’s top QBs

On Collegefootballfan’s schedule this season, we will see some of the top QBs play. Last season, we saw QB Bailey Zappe at Western Kentucky.  He set season NCAA records: 5,967 passing yards and 62 TD passes.  He was selected in fourth round by the New England Patriots.  Our slate this year features some of the “Top Guns” aiming for similar marks and destinations.

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