Closing in on the backend of a “two-game season,” Penn State can rewrite or reinforce the emerging narrative about the team versus the Terrapins.
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Did we just witness a turning point in Penn State football history?
Some readers seemed to really enjoy my slipping in a reference to simulation theory at the very end of last week’s column, so let’s start things out this time around with another popular artifact of theoretical physics for the everyman and invoke the concept of many worlds: Somewhere in the multiverse, there is a timeline where the closing sequence of last week’s Indiana game is destined for enshrinement in program lore.
Back in Beaver Stadium a week removed from a devastating loss to Ohio State in Columbus that all but crushed their playoff hopes and touched off a week of national criticism, the Nittany Lions led lowly Indiana by only three points late in the game. After setting an NCAA record with the most passing attempts prior to throwing his first interception, Drew Allar appeared to bury his struggling team by finding the worst possible moment, at the worst part of the field, against the worst possible opponent to toss that fateful pick.
