I've been a reader of this and the "Scout" PSU Board for many years - this one longer as it existed long before the Scout board or even its affiliation with Rivals. Your post got me to comment though as it is so outlandishly absurd and ignorant. Your implication that PSU's offense and Trace McSorley's success - I believe he was the most successful and highest "Deep Ball" completion pct. passer in all of FBS last year - is predicated on "luck" is quite preposterous and shows an extreme lack of knowledge regarding football in general and Joe Moorhead's RPO-Attack Offense specifically.
PSU won both their B1G East Division and the overall B1G Conference Championship in terms of both best record In-Conference (9-1) & winning the B1G CCG. PSU produced these "Accomplishments and Titles" with one of the best, if not the best, Offenses in the Conference. According to bigten.org PSU produced 37 ppg in B1G Games (2nd only to OSU's 38 ppg in B1G Games) and 444 ypg in B1G Games (2nd only to OSU's 458 ypg B1G ypg).....and perhaps most importantly as it relates to this topic, PSU had the #1 Passing Efficiency Rating in B1G Play:
PASS EFFICIENCY G COMP. ATT. INT. PCT. YARDS TD EFFIC.
Penn State 9 128 241 3 53.1 2184 17 150.0
Michigan 9 147 241 5 61.0 1830 11 135.7
Ohio State 9 181 295 4 61.4 1936 15 130.6
Northwestern 9 209 345 6 60.6 2265 17 128.5
Wisconsin 9 116 200 7 58.0 1445 9 126.5
Indiana 9 185 314 12 58.9 2333 12 126.3
Michigan State 9 166 305 8 54.4 2116 14 122.6
Maryland 9 136 234 8 58.1 1519 10 119.9
Iowa 9 122 211 6 57.8 1310 10 119.9
Purdue 9 233 425 18 54.8 2587 20 113
Nebraska 9 138 275 8 50.2 1769 8 108
Minnesota 9 120 229 11 52.4 1523 4 104.4
Illinois 9 121 257 8 47.1 1428 7 96.5
Rutgers 9 112 239 5 46.9 1181 6 92.5
Those numbers are a little hard to read due to the way they copy from bigten.org, but it demonstrates that PSU's passing game was appreciably more efficient than any other in the B1G. One would think that what drives this rating difference is the great TD/INT Ratio, but that is really not the case as PSU's was 17/3, while OSU's was a still outstanding 15/4. What drove PSU's rating so high is the "Yards Per Completion" and "Yards Per Attempt" which are outstanding, while OSU's numbers in these categories are mediocre-to-poor (PSU averaged 17+ yards per completion and over 9+ yards per attempt, while OSU only averaged over 10+ yards per completion and 6+ yards per attempt).
Again, claiming PSU "lucked" there way to all these documented accomplishments including the best passing game in the league in B1G Reg-Season Games is rather preposterous as proven again in the B1G Championship Game where Wisconsin was unable to stop PSU's downfield RPO passing game while selling-out to stop the run.
In an RPO-Attack, every play can be a run or a pass depending on how the defense reacts to the Offensive Alignment. The QB is taught to keep the ball on the RPO "play-action" if the defense is pressing forward and covering all eligible receivers 1-on-1 with no "cover 2" look to at least one side of the field. In addition, the QB is taught to identify the most attractive single-coverage on the defensively weak-side of the field (IOW, the one without the "Cover 2 Safety" which could be both sides) which is generally to the side of the field from which the most defenders are attacking the LOS inside "the box" and often called "the hot read". Lastly, the QB is taught to read the coverage on the "hot read" and throw the ball to the open-area opposite the defender in coverage and the Receiver is taught to read the defender and play in the same manner and "look for the ball" in an area that will be the opposite of where the single coverage defender is at. IOW, if defender's positioning is inside and underneath the receiver, the receiver should expect the ball to be thrown deep & to the outside where only they can get it (reference Gesicki catch or Barkley TD in BCG). If defender is playing deep and to the inside, the Receiver should expect a "back shoulder throw" toward the sideline as we saw many, many times. Etc.... Characterizing a throw into single-coverage just because there is a defender somewhere in the remote vicinity (but on the opposite side of where all these balls were thrown to) as being 50/50 balls as to whether they will be caught or intercepted is inane. Characterizing them as 50/50 whether they will be caught or incomplete is reasonable, but when you're averaging 17+ yards a completion, throw 17 TDs in 9 games and only 3 INTs in those same games, most coaches would be ecstatic to complete 50%, have 50% fall incomplete and effectively none intercepted of their 20+ yard throws! They'd take it all game long......just as PSU did as evidenced by the B1G CG!
In any event, your notion that PSU being the most accomplished team in the B1G last year, the B1G East Division Champs and B1G Conference Champions being predicated on "luck" is quite silly, ignorant and not based on the actual facts of the matter, just as your insinuation that they are rellying on "luck" this year is the same. PSU is not relying on "luck" this year - they're relying on the returning B1G East Division and B1G Conference Champions, who are returning more "starting" and 2-deep talent than any other team in the entire B1G Conference!
Hopefully somebody will remind you of your absurd and silly post at the end of the 2017, because your post is pretty pathetic imho in that it attempts to demean PSU athletes coaches such as Trace McSorley specifically and PSU's offensive accomplishments in general with utterly inaccurate, unsupported, baseless claims and insults. Why that type of disgraceful, insulting, unsupportive and unappreciative "fan behavior" is permitted toward PSU's young-adult student-athletes and Coaches on a PSU-Dedicated "Fan Board" is a bit of mystery.