Penn State coach James Franklin has a top 10-caliber football team and he knows it. Earlier this week, he sounded like a man who knows his program can go head to toe with any program in the Big Ten, Ohio State included. The Nittany Lions possess one of the most effective, and exciting, offenses in the sport and the wait is on for the PSU defense — badly roughed up by USC in the Rose Bowl — to catch up to offense. This may be the season the defense begins to close the gap on Saquon Barkley & Co.
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