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Introduction
Prior to the start of the 2022 season, how many of us placed Penn State in Pasadena at the end of the year? All you lairs can put your hands down. Pegged as a rebuilding year at best, the Nittany Lions’ exceeded those meager expectations as their lone losses came at the hands of two teams (Michigan and Ohio State) still in contention to play for all the Tostitos on Jan. 9. The rest of the slate…well, the Nittany Lions managed to breeze through it sans some necessary last-minute Clifford magic at Purdue. Though the official CFP rankings don’t concur, in our opinion, Penn State is pretty clearly one of the top-10 teams in the country, worthy of a Southern California showcase stage known as the “Granddaddy of them All” (RIP Keith Jackson) that could serve as the perfect springboard for a CFP run in 2023. So, today, we’ll wipe the dust off our Relative Performance Index (RPI) predictor and forecast how the Nittany Lions will stack up in several statistical categories against Utah in the Rose Bowl.
