Penn State-Marshall preview: Matt Campbell's debut closer than expected?
Josh Pate rates Penn State versus Marshall a three on his upset alert concern meter -- and reflects on Nittany Lions fans' memories of sluggish early-season performances last year make this worth monitoring. Subscribe to "Josh Pate's College Football Show" on YouTube .
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Next up, a game we have not been able to touch on this week.
Jesse is facing Marshall Excuse me, Penn State is facing Marshall at home as a 24 and a half point favorite.
Now I th- I think they'll be okay.
Okay?
So I am not overly concerned.
As evidence, I'm only gonna put a three on the upset alert concern meter.
The Paterno stuff's happening up there, mostly stupid.
Stupid in that it's gaining the amount of attention that it's gaining.
Name whatever building you want after him.
I couldn't care less.
It's not a headline to me.
I don't think it's a distraction for the team.
I'm rolling the dice there.
Here's what else I think.
I think if I'm a Penn State fan, I am mildly terrified because I remember the way we looked inferior against inferior competition to start last year.
Now, we won the games, but, but we kinda sensed, man something feels off.
We don't wanna repeat of that.
We don't.
And so Marshall's quarterback, I assume you all have a scouting report on Carlos Del Rio Wilson, but if you don't, that's a guy who's been around awhile.
He's really good at improvisation.
He's really good at making things happen off script.
He's good situationally.
He's the kind of guy that's really frustrating to play because he doesn't know that he's supposed lay down and he doesn't know that we're supposed to pulling away from them by this point.
So again, I, I kinda like Penn State to run it up a little bit.
So I'm only going to put a three on it, but it does bear watching
