ALTOONA, Pa. -- Hey, I picked Penn State to lose the game. And it very easily could have lost to Purdue on Thursday, had the Boilermakers not blown it with their time management or merely completed one more pass to seal the deal.
That's the slim margin for error many of us expected going into the game, and as mentioned, my prediction gave the home team the benefit of the doubt in a coin-flip game.
But the Nittany Lions did win, 35-31. And it was a good win. A really good win, in fact, all things considered, because it came in the opener, on the road, versus a Big Ten opponent that is pretty good.