Has Penn State finally caught up with Ohio State?
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A little more than 700 days ago, the balance of power in the eastern half of the Big Ten was readily apparent. Saturday morning, Oct. 22, 2016: Ohio State was ranked second in the country, Michigan was ranked third and virtually everyone else was irrelevant.Has Penn State finally caught up with Ohio State?
A little more than 700 days ago, the balance of power in the eastern half of the Big Ten was readily apparent. Saturday morning, Oct. 22, 2016: Ohio State was ranked second in the country, Michigan was ranked third and virtually everyone else was irrelevant. And given the juggernauts that both appeared to be, that didn’t seem likely to change anytime soon.Michigan State was struggling through a 3-9 season but felt like a perpetual underdog, Indiana, Maryland and Rutgers were in the midst of yet another cycle of perpetual wheel-spinning and Penn State was a lingering question mark. It was a team that appeared on the verge of bailing on third-year coach James Franklin, who was (and still is) viewed by some as more of a huckster than an actual football coach.That night, a two-loss and unranked Penn State team hosted Ohio State, and while it was a night game and a home game for the Nittany Lions — just as this Saturday's game will be — even the broadcaster on the call, Chris Fowler, was “not expecting Penn State Read more