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Predict Penn State’s first play from scrimmage against rutgres.

McSorley 15-second hand-off to Barkley for a loss of 7 yards. 2nd and 17.

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Nah, wheel route with Barkley wide open no one in front of him checked off... Polk open in along the sideline behind Barkley checked off ...too much blinding green on that side...McSorley short pass 5yd down field crossing pattern to wide open JJ overthrown by 10 yards...pick 6.
 
they want to run inside zone with SB, but NO!! There's a #1 Technique in the hole, cant run that!! so they check out to a straight drop back pass, incomplete.
 
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Fake handoff to Barkley and 20 yard gain with slant pass to Hamilton.
 
RPO...McSorley keeps it and we get the normal quality O-Line blocking

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Quick kick. Stunned Rutgres player tries to pick up the ball but fumbles. Penn State ball on the Rutgres 28.

Bet on it.
 
Since other than Ga State and Akron, every first play has been a short pass (four to JJ, two to SB and one to MG), I'm going to say a short pass to JJ that's incomplete.
 
Stevens and Sanders get the start. Stevens hands off to Sanders. Flea flicker. Stevens has three guys wide open downfield but chooses to run over five Rutgres defenders for 12 yards and a first down. Game is delayed 20 minutes to clean up the carnage left in his wake.
 
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6 yard slant thrown 27 yards over JJs head. second and 10 - but there is a 3 hour and 22 minute delay due to the Rutgers bus catching fire. Again.
 
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Deep ball to Blacknall.

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Blacknall is a big time play maker but, for some reason, he has been left out of the offense a good part of the season this year. Hope he is a big target the next 3 games, plus the bowl.
 
PSU actually goes right up to the line of scrimmage and IMMEDIATELY snaps the ball, with Barkley counting 1 1000 2 1000 3 1000, then taking the handoff from McSorley and running 75 yds for a TD. Meanwhile, Rutgers continues to look for their defensive signals from the sideline in anticipation of PSU snapping the ball with 2 seconds left on the playclock. Touchdown - Penn State.

BUT WAIT.....A LATE FLAG!

O’Neill calls PSU for Illegal Procedure, saying PSU hasn’t snapped the ball without looking to the sideline once all year and can’t start now.

Second and fifteen.....:eek:
 
PSU actually goes right up to the line of scrimmage and IMMEDIATELY snaps the ball, with Barkley counting 1 1000 2 1000 3 1000, then taking the handoff from McSorley and running 75 yds for a TD. Meanwhile, Rutgers continues to look for their defensive signals from the sideline in anticipation of PSU snapping the ball with 2 seconds left on the playclock. Touchdown - Penn State.

BUT WAIT.....A LATE FLAG!

O’Neill calls PSU for Illegal Procedure, saying PSU hasn’t snapped the ball without looking to the sideline once all year and can’t start now.

Second and fifteen.....:eek:

O'Neil interprets loss of down to PSU on penalty so 2nd and 15 - new PSU rule. NCAA to rule.
 
PSU actually goes right up to the line of scrimmage and IMMEDIATELY snaps the ball, with Barkley counting 1 1000 2 1000 3 1000, then taking the handoff from McSorley and running 75 yds for a TD. Meanwhile, Rutgers continues to look for their defensive signals from the sideline in anticipation of PSU snapping the ball with 2 seconds left on the playclock. Touchdown - Penn State.

BUT WAIT.....A LATE FLAG!

O’Neill calls PSU for Illegal Procedure, saying PSU hasn’t snapped the ball without looking to the sideline once all year and can’t start now.

Second and fifteen.....:eek:

Johnny O will announce this penalty as " dead ball foul ... unsportsmanlike on the offense: snapping the ball in deceit ... 15 yards ... 2nd down."
 
Blacknall is a big time play maker but, for some reason, he has been left out of the offense a good part of the season this year. Hope he is a big target the next 3 games, plus the bowl.

Too late, his talents have been basically wasted the last four years.
 
Just watch the way the offensive line is set up. Should be easy to predict then.
 
Big Mike, quick pass for 4 yards. He takes the entire quarter running the four yards. After one, 0-0.
 
New wrinkle: McSorley under center, Barkley as fullback, Sanders as RB. McSorley hands off to Sanders, who gets past the DL and does a nifty short pitch-back to Barkley who turns on the jets. Stopped inside the 20 (red zone), PSU goes back to RPO and backs up so far that the FG try becomes a nail-biter.
 
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