Official '26 PSU - Minnesota game thread
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If Rocco makes the exact same throw there people would want him benched lol
It worked--it was fine--not a good throw though--just adjustment by Peoples.
Agreed, but a guy can dream. Rocco’s not going to get any better…and his ceiling is just frustratingly mediocre.
The run game got planned in the second half. Just look like it was a bunch of inside zone type stuff, no traps or anything to the tackles or outside. Probably by design, but it also didn’t help that Hanson was not out there.
Yeah, I think the lack of Hansen was a huge problem--hopefully he's good to go next week
Good win though
With this win, PSU is bowl eligible
30-14 Stanford by the way...
Campbell seems to getting it together, but his largest error was Becht. He was supposed to be stabilizing, and should have won at least UM and Wisconsin, when he lost them. I do think with this weak schedule, PSU wasn’t getting in at 10-2, but we would have been better off letting Manske learn through the first 7 games if we were going to go 3-4. And if you say you won’t get a transfer, Campbell should have left him at ISU
Campbell has done a really good job with this team since the Northwestern no-show, but some still won’t admit it; he’s a good on-field coach.
I mean, how would he have known we'd be 3-4. We could have won 3 of those games if we're being honest.
Rocco's a solid QB--he's not great, he's not taking a team to the playoff, but he's likely going to win 8 games this year and add to his impressive career record
You're all making him out to be worse than he is. He had 2 awful games--other than that he's been fine.
Thankfully Grunk isn't here so that's a win however we spin it
Also, please remember Manske had heart surgery less than a year ago--no one was going into a season with him as their starter.
The Governors Victory Bell is ours!
I agree, except for some mystifying clock management choices
Where I disagree, is we didn’t lose games that he couldn’t pull out, the most experienced QB in semi pro football lost them to at least two bad/ mediocre teams by his play. I’ll give you he might be better than Matt senneca, but we could have gone at least 3-4 with Matt senneca. Not worth what we paid Bect to not develop a new QB. And if not Manske, he could have brought in a better starter for less money
I understand, but in some strange way, it sometimes is harder to coach when you have a big lead.
Bad decision to catch it much less return it. I assume he was trying to make something big happen because they were so far behind.
Why are you attacking his experience? He's infinitely better than Matt Seneca.
Stop worrying about what we pay people. It's not your money nor do you know what he's actually being paid. STOP
Most teams play vets--this is getting ridiculous--the lengths you are reaching to in order to attack him
Yes but he didn't fumble or throw an INT. We beat Michigan if he didn't turn the ball over 3 times.
Were we playing Pitt?
I agree that the smarter play was to let it bounce. In the player’s defense, he’s a really good returner, so he was probably looking to break some tackles, and make a big play
Because a good veteran QB shouldn’t lose multiple games to bad teams.
We've yet to lose to a bad team--we've lost to a bunch of mediocre teams but not a bad team
We've beat the bad teams and some mediocre teams
But even elite QBs sometimes lose to bad/mediocre teams--you get that, right?
I'm not giving up on Campbell but grades are for the whole season.
Giving up a 17 pt lead to lose vs Wisconsin
Handing the game to Michigan with 3 TOs
Nearly blowing a 22 pt lead at Washington (I think we would have lost if not for a Washington illegal substitution with 3 minutes left
PSU was once ranked #13. the 4 game slide was embarrassing
We are one of the weakest 6-4 teams in P4 - we lost to a putrid scUM team (scUM is now 2-5 In-Conference with their 2 wins against us and Rutgers. They're 5-5 with b1g cheating for them, but following actual NCAA Rulebook they're 4-6 overall). We lost to a bad Wisconsin team at the Beav, a Wisconsin team who lost to MD today. We got absolutely blown out by a decent, but not great NW team and got beaten by a decent but not great USC team at the Beav when Riley has one of the worst Road Records in the Conference. Our 6 wins are against an awful cast of Non-Conference opponents and 3 Conference wins against teams with a combined Conference record of 8-12 (and 4 Conference losses against teams with a combined Conference record of 13-15????).
Our record of 6-4 is the product of playing the easiest schedule PSU has played in half a century and nothing else. Even if PSU beats MD and Rutgers (who are currently 2-5 and 1-6 in b1g play respectively), we will easily be the worst 4-loss PSU team in PSU history with zero wins against good teams an loses to really bad teams.
Michigan has won two big ten games. PSU, and Rutgers. Is everyone in the big ten a good team!
I disagree. There's nothing "SEMI" pro about DI college football
We'd whip up on 6-4 Va Tech.
Michigan has been competitive in almost every game--if that's our worst loss we're doing okay
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