Now, more than 700 days removed from Penn State’s 2016 upset of Ohio State, James Franklin and his players insist that they have moved on. But with Franklin’s No. 9 Nittany Lions hosting Urban Meyer’s No. 4 Buckeyes in Saturday’s primetime White Out game, it’s hard not to recognize how far Penn State’s program has come.
Since Oct. 22, 2016, Penn State has amassed 22 wins. The only two programs in the country with more W’s in that span? Alabama and Clemson. The Nittany Lions captured the Big Ten title, lit up the scoreboard at the Rose Bowl and won the Fiesta Bowl in the last two years.