Last April, Trace McSorley shook his head in the Lasch Building, reminding himself how close the Nittany Lions were to a College Football Playoff berth in 2017. “Five points from an undefeated season,” the quarterback said at the time, before vowing Penn State would right those wrongs in 2018.
Instead, the Nittany Lions lost to Ohio State by one point in a primetime game (again) and later lost to Michigan State in frustrating fashion (again). For more reasons than one, it was more of the same.
Now that McSorley, Nick Scott, Amani Oruwariye and a host of leaders are gone, new voices have had to speak up this offseason and set the tone for Penn State.