Postgame Podcast: Penn State stumbles to college football's worst loss of the 2025 season at UCLA

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4.9 • 921 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Penn State's Saturday visit to the Rose Bowl turned into an absolute disaster, as the No. 7 Nittany Lions lost to a previously winless UCLA team. The Bruins jumped out to a stunning 27-7 halftime lead and prevented PSU from completing a comeback, resulting in the worst defeat of the James Franklin era. 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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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Lines 24-7 podcast.
0:06.4	We got a lot to talk about on this postgame show.
0:09.4	It has been 40 years since a top 10 team lost to a team that was winless at 0.4 or worse.
0:16.8	Penn State broke that 40-year streak today.
0:19.1	A 42-37 loss to the previously winless UCLA Bruins,
0:25.3	a ton to work our way through. I'm here. Night has fallen in Happy Valley, where the team's on
0:30.1	its way back to quite an environment for the upcoming week leading up to Homecoming.
0:34.2	Daniel Gowan, if you're watching on YouTube, you can see sun is shining still over the Rose Bowl and he's got the sunglasses on. He has found a spot for us after doing some post-game coverage, talking to some players, asking a question of James Franklin. So you may hear a little background noise there in the Rose Bowl. We'll deal with that. We've got a lot to get to and we appreciate Daniel for finding some spot in that stadium to speak with us.
0:55.7	Daniel, we're going to get a lot of color from you, I think, because you just worked your way through that stadium.
1:00.4	You not only heard from Penn State players and James Franklin, but you heard a lot of noise from UCLA players along the way as well.
1:07.7	Paint a picture for what this looked like in the immediate aftermath before we talk about
1:12.0	how we got here. Yeah, so it was actually a pretty surreal scene from the press box starting out.
1:20.0	UCLA had confetti cannons. And so, you know, you've got this blue and gold confetti raining down
1:27.4	onto the field.
1:28.9	The students were gathered in one of the end zones and they were trying to rush the field.
1:34.7	There was a line of security keeping them back.
1:37.4	They put the goalpost down immediately.
1:39.9	And then as UCLA is on the field celebrating, various fans broke that first wall of security and then start sprinting out towards the middle of the field.
1:51.1	There's other security guards trying to chase them down, saw a couple hits get delivered in the open field on some people rushing the field.
1:59.7	It was a scene of some people that did not expect to end up in that situation.
2:05.8	I think everyone on that field was in a similar boat, whether they were UCLA players,
2:09.9	UCLA fans, and then the Penn State players as they went off the field.
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