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Welcome back into the Lions 24-7 podcast. I am Tyler Donahue.

They are Mark Brennan and Daniel Gowan, and we're going to get you set for kickoff Saturday, noon in Beaver Stadium. It feels like we haven't been in that building in a long time. We haven't been in that building since James Franklin was fired. We're going to get a chance to see the Ninety Lions against the number two team in America. The unbeaten Indiana Hoosiers,

one of the great success stories in college football during the last couple of years. In case you missed

it, our last episode of this podcast, we had a Hoosiers insider, Matt Weaver, who covers Indiana

and has done so for a long time for the 24-7 Sports Network. We spent a good bit of a time with him

breaking down why Indiana has had so much

success, considering there seems to be a talent gap when you evaluate their transfer ratings,

their recruit ratings, and yet they've only got one loss in the regular season since the start

of 2024. A lot from that conversation, he also offered his perspective from Bloomington

on how this game is being viewed and how this matchup against Penn State is being viewed by Indiana. Additionally, Tyler Calvaruso was on our last episode of the podcast. We talked a lot about roster retention, which is going to be a really important component of whatever comes next for the Nittany Lions. Once we get into December, a new head coach will be in place. We'll have a lot of conversation on that. We kind of set the table a bit, went through a lot of young Nittany Lions who are going to be important to that process for the next leader of this program. And of course, the coaching search discussion rolls on over at Lines247.com. We're up to 2.7 million views, 37,000 comments on this thing.

We hope you're a part of it. If you're not 30% off right now for VIP access at lines 247.com,

just fresh off doing some Thursday afternoon updates. Our most recent notes on the site include

notes on Vanderbilt's Clark Lee, Georgia Tech's Brent Key, and

Vanderbilt and also Missouri's Eli Drinkowitz, so many names out there to deal with,

and we're doing our best to sort through.

Now we turn to this matchup with Daniel and Mark.

We were on the practice field watching Penn State in action for a bit on Wednesday,

late afternoon, around dusk into the evening.

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