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Fortheblogy writeup of the game: “Excellent analysis” of offense before and after Clifford was injured

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It ain’t pretty. This is a writeup, not a video.

Edit: with quoted endorsement of @Midnighter2 !😉

 
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It ain’t pretty. This is a writeup, not a video.


Excellent analysis.
 
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The "tempo" portion of the analysis is very revealing. Agreed, had Clifford stayed in, the Iowa D probably would have been gassed by the third quarter and Penn State could've reverted to a running game and done a great deal of damage with it, while holding the ball longer and forcing Iowa's QB to throw to catch up. As it was, the "tempo" backfired on Penn State because the D was out there while Iowa was doing their version of "tempo" - i.e., holding the ball as long as they could.

Ferentz was patient...and lucky that Clifford got knocked out of the game.
 
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