College football pick-six: James Franklin is not elite, ND may be elite and UK is...something?
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A weekly journey through the vast landscape of college football, along with a few brief asides.Cliched storyline of the weekLet’s just get this out of the way and then leave it behind, preferably until the end of time: I have been watching Penn State play fCollege football pick-six: James Franklin is not elite, ND may be elite and UK is...something?
A weekly journey through the vast landscape of college football, along with a few brief asides.Cliched storyline of the weekLet’s just get this out of the way and then leave it behind, preferably until the end of time: I have been watching Penn State play football for an achingly long time, and what happened on the final snap of the game against Ohio State Saturday night will not cease to perplex me anytime soon. James Franklin made a baffling decision to take the ball out of the hands of his quarterback, Trace McSorley, and Franklin admitted afterward that he made the wrong call. And now the question is: Can Franklin recover from burning through two years of accumulated good will in the course of one play?I do not know the answer, but I do know that we received an oft-infuriating answer to the question I had posed on Friday — Penn State has not caught up to Ohio State. After the game, Franklin reverted to his default position as a full-on, used-car salesman, launching an emotive stemwinder centered around th Read more