I mean you take away those ST mistakes at the beginning and this is a close game. This is still a bowl team, just playing a top 5 team in the country and they capitalized on our TO's.
That TD alone was a joke. They threw the flag (correctly) and then picked it up for no reason. There's no logical explanation for that. It's simply cheating. Now that's not to say that's the reason we're losing this game. From what it sounds like we put ourselves in a big hole in the 1st quarter.
When the FBI is done with college basketball they need to head on over to college football and clean this up too. Refs probably have bets on a PSU win.
Just being honest, I think this one is a loss and our program changing win comes later in the season against those little Wolverines.
Having said that, if our offense comes to play (that means whichever QB is out there is protecting the football and the line is at least average) I think we can do it.