Welcome in the lights of Eber Stadium still shining on us. Sean Fitz Tyler

Donahue it's about 10 of 1 a.m. on Sunday September 8th and Penn State and 0. It wasn't exactly the route they thought

that we thought they would take to get to this point, but a 45-13 win. The final score looks

pretty good, but this is a team in Penn State that faced a three-point deficit at halftime.

There were some restlessness, to say the least, among Beaver Stadium fans.

A bit of a different situation than week one.

They faced some adversity.

They bounced back. And a 38 to 3 second half

advantage where the Nittany Lions turns this one into a situation where

they actually cover the spread of this game didn't look that way but Sean

when is a win the final score not really indicative of what we saw but a team that

faced its first test and kind of past it in terms of getting beaten up a little bit.

Welcome back to the Lions 24-7 post-game podcast.

Thanks for joining us to those of you who may still be sitting in traffic

if it's still happening or on your drive home.

Not exactly how they drew it up, to be honest with you. Penn State

as you mentioned did cover that 31 and a half point spread but really just a bunch of

speed bumps along the way. Execution on both sides of the ball lacking a lot of speed bumps along the way execution on both sides of the ball lacking a lot

of things for James Franklin and his crew to clean up in the next week before Pitt comes to town

for a noon kickoff next Saturday. Really right out of the gate Buffalo kind of

controlled the tempo in the first half. They had a game plan for Penn State.

They were going to punch him in a mouth, use that power running game that they

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