Excitement in our fanbase for a preseason top 10 team is bursting through the seams at the prospects of a completely boring and dissatisfying 10-2 season
little surprised this is only the 11th time since 1992 PSU has been preseason Top 10. feel like it should be way more than that finished Top 10 3 times in previous 10 instances including 1 out of 4 under Franklin The 10 Top 10s by PSU since 1992 and where they started in the polls
Between the dark years under Joe at the start of the millennium and then the post-Sandusky scandal sanction seasons there's a solid decade where we were largely uncompetitive nationally. Disregard those as outliers and it's basically every other year which seems about right. And in four of our best seasons of the past 20 years we started the season either unranked or near the bottom of the Top 25 (2005, 2008, 2016, and 2022).
Just 1 top 10 finish in the last 15 years for Penn State is pretty surprising and seems really bad for a program like theirs.
huh? they finished Top 10 in 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2022 but only 1 came when they started Top 10 (2017)
That violation is really paying off. McNamara is fighting to win the QB battle with… checks notes… a Northwestern transfer QB who lost the job at NW. Cool… cool cool cool cool
247 updated the Team Talent rankings for the 2024 season (The Banks ) a breakdown of the top 40; keep in mind 247 uses the total points model to rank where as some like Bud Elliott look at blue chip ratio and I look at average rating of players signed I've brought in where a team ranks in overall talent acquisition 2021-24, provided a ranking by average rating based on 247's list for comparison and added in the deviation from the mean for all of FBS in the far right column the average rating of a player signed in all of FBS is 85.93, that's roughly the average player rating of a team like Arizona, Rutgers, Indiana, or Virginia the average rating of a player signed by a P5 program is 87.95 which is roughly equivalent to Nebraska, Arkansas, Colorado, or Washington
if you used team talent to pick games involving at least 1 P5 team for the 2023 season, you'd have gone 70.7% straight up and 50.1% ATS
This is why all the dipshits like The Banks who think we lose because of lack of talent are I’ll informed. We lose because we’re losers who haven’t developed talent or it transferred away because of shitty frost culture. But we’ve always had decent enough talent to be competitive
I have never viewed it as a talent issue. I always assume it was Tom Osborne selling his soul to the devil in the early 90’s and the devil now collecting his due.
I can’t remember the last time I thought y’all lost because of a lack of talent. You haven’t had coaching as good as Rhule in a long time.
I’m not shocked that VASooner would do a tribute to the ultimate MAGA chud there won’t be a dry eye in a stadium filled with unvaccinated people