Welcome back into the Lions 24-7 podcast. We're coming to you on a Saturday evening,

fresh out of Beaver Stadium where we spent a lot of time there today for Penn State's home opener and as predicted Penn State reached 2 and 0 on the season heading into their by week but the story and the way it played out was a lot different than what we forecasted. 35 points

spread essentially favored Penn State going into this matchup. They

ended up being down at halftime. They ultimately win 34 to 27.

So Daniel, you and I were sitting alongside

so we shared a lot of conversation in Beaver Stadium today.

It went from, oh, this is an interesting star

for Bowling Green to, okay, Penn State's on upset alert, can Penn State find a way to put this game away and prevent a major disaster?

They were able to get it done. We'll talk about some of the pieces that took place for part of that process for Penn State to actually get to the finish line without falling to a opponent like this and by the way Notre Dame number five in the country lost to Northern Illinois on home turf today.

So let's call it Penn State Dodgers a bullet of national embarrassment but also has a lot of

self- constructive items to get to with two weeks before their next matchup at home September 21st against

Kent State.

Yeah, a group of us are in the press box watching the end of the Notre Dame Northern Illinois game and after that ended I was like oh

guess Penn State's going to move up in the AP top 25 tomorrow I don't know what the rest of the

results look like like the 8 9 you 10, 11 level, but yeah, you just want to avert disaster in a

games like this and I think that things shifted pretty early on and are thinking from, okay, when are we going to see these backups when are we going to see the line changes that I think we anticipated and that we teased you know on the preview podcast with some of our preview content on the site.

I know that on my keys of the game on Friday, my number one key was getting and get out.

I mean, I know that, and I put the disclaimer that I knew I was being a little

glib in saying that and that Bowling Green is a program that has really elevated itself over the past

couple of years and I think Scott Leffler's done a really good job there when it seemed like he was not going to get anything accomplished at Bowling Green, but I was still like you got to get in you know put up four touchdowns quick you know get these starters out get these backups get these young guys some work and very clearly did not happen and you know even and there's not something that I was expecting to see not something you were expecting to see but I think that you get to the point at where a game like this James

Rankin called it a dog fight.

I think that you kind of shift into that real gamer mode

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