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

Daniel Gallen and Mark Brennan are with me. As always on Thursdays as we get you set for the next Penn State kickoff.

That will occur at 3.30 in Beaver Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The Northwestern Wildcats come to town with a record of three and two.

The Nittany Lions await them with a record of three and two. Certainly not the circumstances we

expected to encounter 2025 homecoming. Pressure is clearly on James Franklin in this Penn State

squad to bounce back after back-to-back losses in the Big Ten. A shocking defeat on the road last Saturday

that we covered

in detail after that loss against UCLA. If you missed our last episode, we spent some time breaking

down the Northwestern Wildcats, their path to this point, players to watch, strengths, weaknesses,

and ultimately a forecast for this game from a man who covers Northwestern. That was Gavin Dorsey.

So if you missed that on, drop on Wednesday, go check that one out a lot more about the Northwestern Wildcats, where they're

going to bring it down. We also had Tyler Calveruso last episode discussing Penn State recruiting

when it comes to quarterbacks and ultimately what it comes to them dealing with on-field

struggles and how that could impact things with a 26 and 27 class.

A lot of conversation to get to over there if you missed it.

But now we're focusing on what comes next.

And Mark and Daniel, we've got a match up between two big 10 squads trying to avoid the 500

record in mid-October.

We didn't think we'd be having that kind of dialogue regarding the Nitty lines right now. But as it has been the case on recent podcast episodes, Mark, it feels

like we've kind of got to begin with a psychological check on these nitty lines.

Yeah, you know, Daniel and I were both out there in Pasadena. And after after the game everybody seemed to say all the right things

at least I thought so player wise and throughout this week it seems that the players are saying the

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