There was a time not long ago when Penn State football fans hoped that the program would one day return to national relevance. After several years of diligent hard work that day has come and it seems as though there wasn’t much time spent celebrating the achievement.
During the season James Franklin will remind his team and the media that his focus is on one opponent at a time. Not wanting to get caught up on the big-picture implications of each individual game, Franklin keeps his focus on the one tree in front of his team. Within a couple of weeks that single object in focus will be Appalachian State, Penn State’s first game of the season.