PSU’s Franklin after another huge loss: ‘I own it all’

• Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior Citizen WriterNov 2, 2024, 05:42 PM ET Close College football reporter; signed up with ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University.STATE COLLEGE, Pa.

— Penn State coach James Franklin made the familiar walk after a big-game loss, stopping to talk with previous players and other notables on his way off the field Saturday at Beaver Stadium.He walked through the end zone where No. 3 Penn State had actually two times stopped working to score from first-and-goal inside the 5-yard line against No. 4 Ohio State. Before reaching the Success Bell beside the group tunnel, Franklin had a short exchange with 2 fans questioning the playcalling on the second goal-to-go series of Saturday’s 20-13 loss before 111,030, the biggest crowd ever at Beaver Arena. Then, Franklin directed the tunnel to resolve his group after its 8th successive loss to Ohio State, the fourth at home.Editor’s Picks Penn State’s most current big-game defeat under Franklin came down to 2 failed opportunities inside Ohio State’s 5-yard line, several unfortunate charges, a few critical officiating calls and an offense that could not reach completion zone even as soon as, regardless of being found a 10-0 lead less than 10 minutes into the game. However the result, no matter how it happened, will be organized in with others under Franklin, who fell to 1-12 versus AP top-10 teams at Penn State and 1-15 total as an FBS coach.Franklin said he”comprehends”the fans ‘aggravation.”We get an astounding crowd here; we get incredible support,”he stated.”You don’t do that without enthusiasm, and there’s fantastic things that come from that, and there’s hard things that come from that.

That belongs to the job, and I own all of it.” Franklin, seeking his first College Football Playoff look regardless of a 95-40 record at Penn State, has not beaten Ohio State considering that 2016, which marked the Lions’last Big 10 title. The Buckeyes improved to

10-1 against Franklin, who has 6 AP top-20 surfaces given that 2016 however none in the top five.”There’s nobody that’s looking in the mirror harder than I am, “Franklin stated.”Ninety-nine percent of the programs across college football would pass away to do what we have actually had the ability to do in our time here. However I also understand when you’re at a

location like Penn State, there’s actually, really high expectations. … I get it, I totally get it.” James Franklin is now 1-12 against AP top-10 groups at Penn State and 1-15 general as an FBS coach. AP Photo/Barry Reeger Franklin added that he had planned to attend to several items in his postgame news conference however decided they were”not proper to state today. “He later described “a lots of calls, 50-50 calls that can go either way, and because type of game, they’re vital.”Quarterback

Drew Allar said Penn State “didn’t win sufficient minutes “Saturday, including the crucial turnover on downs with 5:13 to play. After a direct snap to do-it-all tight end Tyler Warren went for 33 yards, Penn State’s longest play of the game, the offense was established at Ohio State’s 3-yard line

. But 3 Kaytron Allen runs up the middle netted little, and on 4th down Allar couldn’t get in touch with tight end Khalil Dinkins, who was well covered. “We wished to get it to Ty Warren,”said Allar, who returned from a knee injury to pass for 146 yards with an interception in the end zone late in the very first half, and rush for 31.”The security or nickel did a great task of playing over the top of it and driving it. It would have been a bang-bang play,

except the objective line or insufficient. I was taking a look at Dink. We simply didn’t link on it.”Penn State’s defense, which had held Ohio State out of the end zone considering that early in the 2nd quarter, had a possibility to make a stop and restore ownership. However Ohio State’s rushing trident of Quinshon Judkins, TreVeyon Henderson and Will Howard overpowered the Lions, as the Buckeyes ran out the clock.The Buckeyes, who had a season-low 64 hurrying backyards last week versus Nebraska, finished with 176 yards Saturday. “Type of a sucky feeling, “linebacker Kobe King stated.” We prepare all week, and we do certain things to specific bundles and protections. We just didn’t perform it the way it’s supposed to be. Mistakes were made. Guys need to remain in the best areas

.”Numerous Penn State players deflected blame from Franklin and restated their assistance for the 11th-year coach.

In past years, losses like Saturday’s gotten rid of Penn State from CFP contention, however the expanded field keeps the 7-1 Lions quite in the mix.Still, there’s an acknowledgment that coaches and teams are evaluated based on games like Saturday’s.”If you’re not judging yourself after a game like this, then that concerns your love for the game, “offending lineman Sal Wormley stated.”Like, there’s no way you enter into a game like this, strictly implicate other people. There has to be something you might have done. “Penn State completes the routine season with 4 unranked challengers– Washington, Purdue, Minnesota and Maryland– before awaiting its postseason fate.”OK, we lost, now we need to keep it pushing, since that could extremely well be the difference in between you winning a championship game and you not winning a championship game,”protective lineman Dvon J-Thomas stated.” So how we respond to this loss will be a huge sign as to the type of team

we are, and the type of team you’ll see in the playoffs.”