Penn State enters Ohio State game week as major underdogs with key focuses on offense and defense

Lions247: A Penn State athletics Podcast

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Penn State returns to game action after its bye week with a visit to unbeaten Big Ten powerhouse Ohio State. Fresh out of a Monday press conference with Nittany Lions interim coach Terry Smith, we review key storylines across the field. Enjoy complete Penn State coverage anytime at Lions247.com. Follow the team on X: @Lions247 @TDsTake @danieljtgallen @tyler_calvaruso @MarkXBrennan. Follow or subscribe to the Lions247 Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. And watch every episode on YouTube. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.5	Welcome back to the Lions 24-7 podcast. I am Tyler Donahue. They are Mark Brendan and Daniel Gowan, and we are underway with Ohio State Game Week here in Happy Valley. A lot different in terms of the complexion of this matchup than what we envisioned back in early September, late August. I thought this would be a heavyweight matchup between a couple national championship contenders.
1:00.2	Instead, Penn State trying to shock the college football universe as a 20 and a half point underdog,
1:02.2	visiting number one Ohio State.
1:03.9	The Buckeyes have held up their end of the bargain.
1:05.8	They are 7 and 0 on the season.
1:11.2	Penn State, of course, comes out of its second byweek of the fall at 3 and 4, riding a a four game losing streak. That's their first time under 500 since that 2020 COVID shortened season.
1:17.5	This is the largest underdog point spread that Penn State has faced since prior to the
1:22.0	James Franklin era. You got to go back to the 2013 regular season finale at Wisconsin,
1:27.3	which was ultimately an upset victory by the Nintney Lions.
1:30.5	They were a 24 point underdog, knocked the badgers out of the BCS conversation that day.
1:36.2	And this is the first time we've really seen a big point spread in this particular matchup within this series since 2019, when Penn State had a hobbled Sean Clifford, ultimately turned
1:45.6	to Will Levis pretty early in the matchup, 18.5.5 point underdog out in 2019. They lost that game
1:52.4	28 to 17. It's been pretty close in terms of the expectations for this game year by year. Last
1:58.0	year, Penn State was a three-point favorite in Beaver Stadium.
2:01.4	I ended up losing that game by seven points. Eight straight losses in this series for Penn State.
2:06.6	They've lost 12 of 13 overall going back to 2012, and it's now a 25 to 14 advantage for Ohio State in
2:14.2	the all-time series. Big change in that record over the course of the last 13
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