NDL: S29W5 - Illinois (7) at Penn State (20)

State College, PA

Illini Hapless in Happy Valley

Article By: uf83198

The Fighting Illini traveled to Happy Valley and were smothered by Penn State on both sides of the ball. The Nittany Lions held Illinois to their lowest offensive output for yards and points for the season. The Illini simply had no answers on either side of the ball.

The Penn State offense used a ball control gameplan and moved the ball at will, wearing out the Illinois defense in the process.

Said Coach UF, "The game was not as close as the score indicated."

After a Bye week, the Illini will take on Purdue at home.

No open space through out the game.

Penn State gets fast start, takes the W

Article By: footballkelly31

The Nittany Lions played host to the Fighting Illini of Illinois in the big ten opener for PSU.
The Nittany Lions opened the game with a methodical drive that ended with a 3 yard touchdown. After the defense stood tall and forced a punt the Lions were not able to finish off a drive and had to settle for a 47 yard field goal to go up 10-0.
Both offenses sputtered and exchanged punts. Than the PSU defense gets a big pick just to have the offense turn around and give it back on a fumble. The Illini would use that momentum to get inside the PSU 20 however they would push the field goal left.
The Nittany Lions would get the ball with a minute left in the half and get into field goal range with one time out to go. Singleton would break off a 21 yard touch down score to go up 17-0 at half.
The Illini would come out and open the third quarter with a nice drive, capping it off with a 7 yard td on a well timed swing pass to Laughery who goes in untouched. 17-7.
Penn State would put together a long drive and eat up nearly 6 minutes just to be stuffed at the Illinois 3 and have to settle for 3. 20-7.
The Illinois offense would drive down the field and get to the PSU 35 when Cam Miller would step underneath the out route and snag his first pick of the season.
The PSU offense would work to drain the clock and use up the opponents time outs before punting it away with roughly 2:30 minutes left.
The Illinois put two first downs together but Cam Miller would under cut the cross and seal the game for the Nittany Lions.
Good Game UF, EA had it out for you in this one.

 

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