• I expected Penn State to defeat a good Ohio team. I figured with all of the emotion swirling around State College and the Nittany Lions experience and talent on D, they'd be able to handle QB Tyler Tettleton. And for while, that looked like the case. Penn State had a 14-3 lead, but the Nittany Lions seemed to struggle balancing all of that adrenaline.

Ohio hung around. Kept scrapping. Tettleton and Ohio, who began the game only 2 of 9 on third-down conversions, got into a rhythm and picked apart the PSU D with slant pattern after slant pattern. The Bobcats went on to convert on 10 of their next 11 third-down tries and outscored Penn State 21-0.

As Nittany Lions beat writer Ben Jones noted Sunday morning, in the past four seasons Penn State has given up four scoring drives of greater than 80 yards at home, but they gave up two on Saturday -- 82 and 93 yards.

Frank Solich and his team got overshadowed by all of the focus on everything going on around that game, but he and his program deserves a lot of credit. Ohio's schedule going forward is very, very manageable -- with a trip to Marshall looking like the biggest hurdle standing in the way of a 12-0 season.