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Bye Week Tradition: 2025 Three-Deep

You knew this was coming. I've been doing this for 15 years now. During the bye week, I peek at next year's depth chart. And, during seasons with two bye weeks (like this one), the second bye week will be a look at the 2026 depth

So Thankful For This Bye Week

It probably sounds dumb to say this given that I'm just a guy who covers the team, not a guy who has to coach or play on this team. The players and coaches are putting in 90-hour weeks and here I am saying "man, I need a

Postscript, Penn State

The Structure

From The Stands - Penn State 2024

I'm super late getting down to the field to record the Sunday TV segment (I won't be back by Sunday night so we have to record it here on the field). Which means I can only upload From The Stands from up here and then hustle

SOC - Penn State 2024

House Money

This was gonna be the topic for my SOC tonight. It's all I've been thinking about this week. But I'm here in the lounge at Union Station in Chicago waiting for the 6:10 boarding time for my overnight train to Pennsylvania and I

Those Were The Days - Penn State

Craig Has The Scout - Penn State 2024

So, Just How Good Are We?

Ever since I began writing them two years ago, these Tuesday NERDstats articles have been about context. They're my attempt to use NERDstats (I don't really think of them as "NERDstats" anymore) to put what we're seeing on the field into context.

Postscript, Nebraska

More Nebraska Stuff

It's quite difficult to put the rollercoaster of emotions into words. Thursday through Sunday for me was an entire life condensed into four days. Tears of sadness and tears of joy. I'll share a little bit about that and then I'll talk about some

Football Proficiency

I would be writing this exact same article whether we won or lost. Had overtime gone the other way, the title of this post would still have been "Football Proficiency." The entire night I just sat there in awe of how we were presenting ourselves on the national

From The Field - Nebraska

Really difficult to capture my emotions at the moment. It's 45 minutes after I recorded this and I'm still struggling to put it all into words. Watching my ranked team beat another ranked team in front of 87,000 of their fans (in a game broadcast