What we learned from Penn State practice, Terry Smith and Drew Allar this week; breaking down Nebraska

Lions247: A Penn State athletics Podcast

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4.9 • 921 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Following a visit to Penn State practice and time with interim coach Terry Smith, there is plenty to discuss while previewing a Saturday game. Plus, we caught up with QB Drew Allar for the first time since his season-ending injury and broke down Nebraska with a Cornhuskers insider. 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 into the Lions 247 podcast. I am Tyler Donahue. They are Mark Brennan and
0:08.8	Daniel Gallen. We're going to get you ready for game 11 of Penn State's schedule. This Saturday night,
0:13.6	Nebraska comes to town. Senior Day for Penn State. Going to be honoring a couple dozen plus players
0:20.0	who have been around this program for some time and a few that transferred in more recently.
0:24.6	We're going to put some focus on that group to close out our segment together here.
0:28.4	But we're going to give you our preview, predictions, practice takeaways.
0:32.0	As usual, we were on the practice field Wednesday.
0:34.6	We had our notebooks.
0:35.5	I had offense.
0:36.4	Daniel had defense.
0:38.2	Mark had video highlights up. Grace Brennan with another fantastic photo gallery and our video and
0:43.2	takeaways from Terry Smith all over at lines 247.com. We're going to dive into that,
0:47.9	a lot of that during this show. Nebraska, 10 and 8 all time against Penn State. This is their
0:53.4	first meeting since 2020 during that COVID shortened season.
0:57.3	Penn State fell 30 to 23 in Lincoln that year.
1:00.5	This is their first meeting in Beaver Stadium since what was a very winchery mixed kind of night against Nebraska in 2017.
1:08.2	It ended up 56 to 44 Penn State.
1:13.5	It was a game that they boat race Nebraska.
1:18.3	Corn Oscars pours some points on late in that matchup. Another big time performance. One of the final of them from Sequan Barkley and in any lines uniform. We're going to hear more about this Nebraska
1:23.6	team. Also a little bit about Matt Ruhl and what they were hearing in Lincoln about a month ago when he was a relatively hot name on the hot board for Penn State with their coaching search. Brian Christofferson, an insider with the cornhuskers who covers the team for 24-7 sports. We'll hop on with us. A little bit later in the show. If you missed our last show, we switched up our typical Wednesday lineup.
1:44.9	Daniel joined me, Tyler Cabruso, joined me, and we took a lot of different angles on the coaching carousel.
1:50.8	We started with James Franklin getting hired at Virginia Tech, the domino effect that's going to happen here for Penn State staff, which we're continuing to see in live time, what we anticipate to see on the recruiting trail
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