POSTGAME PODCAST: Nittany Lions fall to Illinois in COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S LONGEST GAME EVER
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4.8 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Lions247’s Sean Fitz and Tyler Donohue sit down to recap No. 7 Penn State’s 9-OT loss to Illinois, where do the Nittany Lions go from here and how James Franklin’s squad can bounce back.
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| 0:00.0 | All the big names are here. |
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| 0:19.0 | Into its Quickbooks. Welcome into the line 24-7 podcast. It's our seventh post-game edition of this |
| 0:28.3 | 2021 Penn State football season and certainly the most shocked we have been coming onto one of these post-game |
| 0:33.8 | podcasts as Penn State drops a 20 to 18 match up against Illinois, one that went |
| 0:39.2 | nine over times with this new college football structure, the final seven of those nine overtime sessions occurring in a two-point conversion format. |
| 0:48.0 | Thus, the longest game by overtime in NCAA history, and I think it goes without saying one of the most if not the most |
| 0:56.4 | embarrassing moment of the James Franklin era here for the Nintny Alliance. |
| 1:00.9 | Yeah, that's a good way to put it. I think that's the way that I put it in the post game. It's embarrassing for Penn State. It's embarrassing for a program that had convinced a lot of people themselves included national media, whatever, that they belonged in that college football playoff conversation and then you go out and do that and that's that's really what's what's disappointing is that you just fell in your face in a way that you could see that |
| 1:25.0 | Penn State's got a lot of talent. Penn State did not utilize a lot of that talent and then |
| 1:28.8 | really put themselves in a position to play in that situation where you're basically sudden death and you know anything can happen in sudden death and and really from start to finish I mean from the way that the day started with the rain and the weather and the crowd being a late arriving crowd and it just seemed to fit everything that happened on Saturday in Beaver Stadium because it was |
| 1:51.6 | Uninspired Laxadazical and really unfortunate for Penn State fans and whoever actually had to witness that thing. |
| 1:59.5 | I know it got popular on Twitter, but that's not a reason you want to be popular on Twitter because you're playing a game like that. |
| 2:05.0 | Yeah, you noted this after the game. This is the fourth time in five season that Penn State has followed its first loss with a second loss in that next scheduled game. |
| 2:15.2 | Clearly this is the most shocking. This is the opponent that that surprises you the most |
| 2:18.8 | not only in Illinois team that was two and five and as we said this week called out by their head coach and |
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