Editor’s Note: Each week during the season, the FTB Staff will release its scouting report on Penn State’s upcoming opponent. Normally, these blogs will be posted at 11 a.m. EST Thursday and Friday…but we’re a little premature this week. Hey, happens to the best of us.  

Despite Tom Allen’s undeniable enthusiasm (see above) coaching defense at Indiana isn’t always the most pleasant experience. Even last season, the Hoosiers’ winningest campaign since 1993, Indiana ended a pedestrian 9th among Big Ten teams in Scoring Defense (24.4 Pts/Gm), Total Defense (352.2 Yds/Gm), and Sacks (25). No Indiana player on this side of the ball made any All-Big Ten teams last season. 

 To Allen’s credit – and to a lesser degree DC Kane Wommack’s credit, although Allen’s thumbprint is on everything the Hoosiers do defensively – he squeezes all the juice out of players who are juuust a few inches too short or juuust a few pounds too light to play on bigger stages than the community theater that is Memorial Stadium.

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Editor’s Note: Each Week During the Football Season Stand-Up Comedian and Co-Host of the Punch Drunk Sports Podcast, Jayson Thibault, picks games against the flips of a John F. Kennedy Half-Dollar. 

The Contestants

Jayson Thibault is a stand-up comedian and original member of the Punch Drunk Sports Podcast along with Air Shaffir and Sam Tripoli.  On Nov. 27, Thibault will be recording his new comedy album, “Covidiot” during his performance at The Market Lounge & Comedy Club in Valparaiso, Indiana.  FTB is without question THE No. 1 Penn State football site in Northwest Indiana, so far all our readers in the area (Brian) be sure to check him out! 

The JFK Half-Dollar Coin was first minted in 1964. This particular 50-cent piece were flipping has been in the cup holder of a 2015 Toyota Camry for some time and is a tad sticky. If it picks winners, we’re not going to wash it. If it doesn’t, we’re spending it.  

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Editor’s Note: Each Week During the Football Season Stand-Up Comedian and Co-Host of the Punch Drunk Sports Podcast, Jayson Thibault, picks games against the flips of a John F. Kennedy Half-Dollar. 

The Contestants

Jayson Thibault is a stand-up comedian and original member of the Punch Drunk Sports Podcast along with Air Shaffir and Sam Tripoli.  On Nov. 27, Thibault will be recording his new comedy album, “Covidiot” during his performance at The Market Lounge & Comedy Club in Valparaiso, Indiana.  FTB is without question THE No. 1 Penn State football site in Northwest Indiana, so far all our readers in the area (Brian) be sure to check him out! 

The JFK Half-Dollar Coin was first minted in 1964. This particular 50-cent piece we’re flipping has been in the cup holder of a 2015 Toyota Camry for some time and is a tad sticky. If it picks winners, we’re not going to wash it. If it doesn’t, we’re spending it.   

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Considering this is the third Welcome Letter we’ve penned since July, let’s hurry up and publish this one before there’s a grub infestation of the Beaver Stadium grass, leaving the field unsuitable for play, thus cancelling half the season. 

(Shudders) OK, only positive thoughts from here on.  

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