Joe Smeltzer

Welcome to a brand-new Lasching Out Podcast on the Nittany Sports Now Network. This podcast is hosted by Nittany Sports Now’s Jarrod Prugar and is co-hosted by Kevin Quigley. Jarrod and Kevin discuss Penn State’s first ever College Football Playoff Game which they’ll be hosting on Saturday. The SMU Mustangs comes to a cold and […]

Nittany Sports Now can confirm what uniforms Penn State will be wearing for Saturday’s College Football Playoff Game against SMU. The program hinted through social media that it would be wearing its Generations of Greatness uniforms, and NSN confirmed that this is indeed the case.

Penn State center Nick Dawkins described what SMU is going to be walking into Saturday afternoon at Beaver Stadium. SMU will be the first team to ever play against Penn State in a College Football Playoff game and will be doing so in White Out conditions. Although the White Out won’t be played in its […]

Notre Dame beat Indiana 27-17 Friday night and here’s how that could impact Penn State. Before anything else, Penn State must beat SMU to stay alive in the College Football Playoff bracket. But if sixth-seeded Penn State does beat SMU and then takes care of No. 3 Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl Dec. 30, […]

Penn State is playing SMU today, and here are some things fans might want to know. It’s a day unlike any in the history of either program: for the first time ever, each team is in the College Football Playoff. For Penn State, anything short of a Playoff berth would have been a massive disappointment […]

University Park— Penn State offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki and defensive coordinator Tom Allen speak with media following the team’s 38-10 playoff win over SMU Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024.

Penn State LB Dom DeLuca was the star of Saturday’s 38-10 College Football Playoff win over SMU. First, he opened the scoring— and, it turned out, the floodgates— with a 23-yard interception return for a touchdown in the first quarter. PENN STATE PICK SIX!!! pic./Iqdm6HYGaz — Mr Matthew CFB (@MrMatthew_CFB) December 21, 2024 He wasn’t […]

NSN’s Joe Smeltzer and Jarrod Prugar were joined by Yardbarker and WVSN’s Mike Asti to discuss Penn State’s 38-10 College Football Playoff win over SMU Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024 at Beaver Stadium.

Bryson DeChambeau was late to Saturday’s Penn State-SMU College Football Playoff Game and maybe that was for the best. DeChambeau, who went to SMU before becoming a two-time U.S. Open champion, wanted to be there for his Alma Mater’s first college football playoff games. By the time he got there— which was after the first […]

In wonderful land of odds, the early spread for the College Football Playoff quarterfinal between Penn State and Boise State is quite telling. Despite Boise State (12-1) being the No. 3 seed and Penn State (12-2) being seeded sixth, Penn State is a 10.5-point favorite per FanDuel Sportsbo. There are a few reasons for this. […]