The Pittsburgh Panthers came into Happy Valley looking to knock off No 4 Penn State on their home field. The Nittany Lions looked to get to 2-0 on the season and avenge their loss to Pitt from last season. This time the Nittany Lions would have the home field advantage. Who would take the battle of Pennsylvania? Let's find out! The Panthers would start with the ball at their own 19. On second and 7, Max Browne's pass would be intercepted by Grant Haley and returned to the Pitt 8 for a first and goal. On the first play, Trace McSorley would find Mike Gesicki for an eight yard touchdown pass and the PAT would be made to make it 7-0 with 12:53 remaining in the first quarter. Pitt went three and out on their next possession and would punt the ball away. The Nittany Lions would start at their own 42. The Panthers defense would force a three and out of their own and forced Penn State to punt. The Panthers would start at their own 9. Browne would go to Rafael Araujo-Lopes for 22 yards on second and 3 to the Pitt 39. The Panthers would face a third and 9 but Grant Haley would sack Browne to force a Panthers punt. The Nittany Lions would face a third and 2 and McSorley would go for 36 yards to the Pitt 18. The Nittany Lions would face a third and 7 but an offsides would make it third and 2. On the third and 2, McSorley would find Gesicki for their second touchdown of the day. The PAT would make it 14-0 with 5:20 remaining in the first quarter. The Panthers would face a third and 8 on their next possession and Browne would find Jester Walsh for 8 yards and a first down. Browne would find Matt Flanagan for five for a first down on second and 5. On third and 3, Chawntez Moss would get three yards on the second effort for a first down. The Panthers would face a third and 1 as the first quarter came to an end as the Nittany Lions led 14-0. The Panthers would get stuffed on third and 1 and then went for it on fourth down and Qadree Ollison would get four for a first down. On the next play, Browne would get sacked by Shareef Miller then a false start on Pitt on second down would make it second and 22. Back-to-back incompletions would force the Panthers to punt. The Nittany Lions would take over at their own 11. McSorley would find DaeSean Hamlton on back-to-back plays for a combined 22 yards to the PSU 33. They would face a third and 10 and McSorley would be rushed and the pass would go incomplete and the Nittany Lions would be forced to punt. The Panthers would take over at their own 16. Browne would find Aaron Matthews for 12 yards on second and 5. They would face a third and 7 and Browne's pass would be picked off by Troy Apke and the Nittany Lions would take over at their 41. Penn State would go three and out and punted the ball back to Pitt. The Panthers took over at their own 13. Qadree Ollison went 17 on the first play of the drive. On second and 10, Ollison went for 12 yards, They would face a third and 6 and Chawntez Moss went for 7 to the PSU 47. The Nittany Lions would get a loss of 4 on second and 10 but an unsportsmanlike conduct would give them a first and goal at the 10. The Penn State defense would hold them to a field goal and the Nittany Lions would lead 14-3 1:12 left in the second. The Nittany Lions took over at their own 25 and Saquon Barkley would go 11 yards on the first play of the drive. McSorley would get eight yards then he would go to Juwan Johnson for 4 for a first down. They went for one last play and McSorley's pass would be picked off by Dane Jackson as the game went to halftime with a 14-3 Penn State lead. The Nittany Lions started with the ball in the second half. Barkley would start with a 17 yard run on the first play. Barkley went for 11 on the next play. They would face a third and 10 and Barkley would get stopped in the backfield and Penn State would punt the ball away. Pittsburgh would get the ball at their own 5. The Panthers would go three and out and the Nittany Lions would take over at the Pitt 46. On the first play, McSorley would go to Barkley for a 46 yard touchdown pass. The PAT would be made and Penn State would lead 21-3 with 10:30 remaining in the third quarter. Browne would find Weah for 11 on second and 9 and then Ollison goes for 36 to the Penn State 21. On second and 2, Moss would go 8 for a first and goal at 5. The defense would reduce them to another field goal and would lead 21-6 with 6:03 remaining in the third. The Panthers defense forced a three and out and got the ball back at their own 34. The Panthers would go three and out highlighted by a sack by Penn State's Shareef Miller. The Nittany Lions took over their own 22. Barkley would go for 22 yards on the first play and the Panthers would be called for a horsecollar tackle for another 15 to get them into Panthers territory at the 41. Barkley would go for 11 yards for another first down. On second and 8, McSorley would go to Polk for 18 yards and a first down. They would face a second and goal at the 8 as the third quarter came to a close with the Nittany Lions leading 21-6. Saquon Barkley would score from eight yards out on the first play of the quarter. The PAT would make 28-6 with 14:54 remaining in the game. Moss started the series with an 11 yard run. On a second and 9, Browne went to Ollison for 30 yards to the Penn State 33 then Browne went to Darren Hall for 20 to the PSU 20. On second and 6, Browne found Flanagan for eight and a first and goal at the 8. On a third and goal at the 3, backup QB Ben Dinucci went in from three yards out. Dinucci went to Ollison for the two point conversion to make it 28-14 with 10:09 left in the fourth. The Nittany Lions started at their own 23. Penn State would find themselves with a third and 11 and McSorley found DaeSean Hamilton for 23. They would go backwards on first down and couldn't recover and were forced to punt. The Nittany Lions would down it at the Pittsburgh 4 yard line. On the second play of the drive, Darrin Hall was tackled in the end zone for a safety to make it 30-14 with 5:53 left in the fourth quarter. Penn State would get the ball at the Pitt 40 thanks to an unsportsmanlike conduct on the Panthers. On third and 1, McSorley would find Gesicki for 19 to the Pitt 12. The Nittany Lions would get a field goal and lead 33-14 with 3:34 remaining in the game. The Panthers would face a fourth and 4 and Dinucci would go for 15 yards to keep the drive alive. They faced another fourth down and Moss would go for six. The Panthers would get a first and goal when Dinucci went to Weah for 21 yards. The Panthers would face a fourth and goal and the Panthers would fumble and Penn State would recover and the Nittany Lions would improve to 2-0 with a 33-14 victory over Pittsburgh.
Thoughts on the game: Penn State looked impressive from the start. On the second play, they got an interception, then on their first play on offense, they got a touchdown. McSorley once again had a great game and so did Saquon Barkley. The defense was impressive. Only gave up a touchdown and two field goals. For Pitt, I was impressed by Qadree Ollison.
Stats
Passing
Pittsburgh
Max Browne 19/32 138 yards 0 TD 2 INT
Ben Dinucci 5/9 49 yards 0 TD 0 INT
Penn State
Trace McSorley 15/28 164 yards 3 TDs 1 INT
Rushing
Pittsburgh
Qadree Ollison 15 carries 96 yards
Chawntez Moss 11 carries 46 yards
Darrin Hall 5 carries 19 yards
Ben Dinucci 5 carries 8 yards 1 TD
Maurice Ffrench 1 carry 8 yards
Avonte Maddox 1 carry 1 yard
Quadree Henderson 2 carries -5 yards
Max Browne 5 carries -18 carries
Penn State
Saquon Barkley 14 carries 88 yards 1 TD
Trace McSorley 8 carries 65 yards
Mile Sanders 1 carry -3 yards
Receiving
Jester Weah 6 catches 66 yards
Rafael Araujo-Lopes 4 catches 42 yards
Quadree Ollison 2 catches 30 yards
Matt Flanagan 3 catches 19 yards
Aaron Mathews 1 catch 12 yards
Darrin Hall 2 catches 9 yards
Maurice Ffrench 2 catches 9 yards
Quadree Henderson 2 catches 5 yards
Chawntez Moss 2 catches -4 yards
Penn State
Saquon Barkley 4 catches 45 yards 1 TD
DaeSean Hamilton 3 catches 45 yards
Mike Gesicki 4 catches 39 yards
Brandon Polk 1 catch 18 yards
Deandre Thompkins 1 catch 12 yards
Juwan Johnson 1 catch 4 yards
Tommy Stevens 1 catch 1 yard
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