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Kaytron Allen ran for 160 yards with two touchdowns and Penn State’s defense played its best game of the season to keep the Nittany Lions’ bowl hopes alive with a 37-10 win over Nebraska on Saturday.Allen,
Nicholas Singleton matched Saquon Barkley's touchdown record in the Penn State Nittany Lions' win over Nebraska on Saturday night.
The box score is misleading. Read why Nebraska's loss to Penn State was a failure of the defense and line play, not the performance of TJ Lateef.
Saturday night in Happy Valley was supposed to be a measuring stick game for Nebraska. Instead, it became a harsh reminder of just how far the Cornhuskers still need to travel before they can compete with the Big Ten’s elite programs.
An incompletion by Lateef forces a turnover on downs for Nebraska on Penn State's 12-yard line with 5:46 left on the clock. Nebraska is now 0-for-4 on fourth down attempts tonight, and 2-for-4 on red zone attempts.
Penn State scored on six of its nine drives and the Nebraska football team fell to the Nittany Lions by a score of
Freshman QB TJ Lateef suffered his first loss as a starter in his college career. Lateef completed 21 of 37 passes for 187 yards. He scored the only touchdown of the night for Nebraska on an 11-yard carry with 55 seconds remaining in the third quarter.
It's a split vote as Omaha World-Herald writers Evan Bland, Tom Shatel, Ben Doody and Sam McKewon predict the score for Nebraska vs. Penn State.
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