Evan Royster News

The spread is spreading, but the conference's bread-and-butter attack still remains power running.

Even with so many storylines swirling around Penn State's regular-season finale on Saturday, one is beginning to play loudly in the background.

The driving rain. A sleepy home crowd on the heels of a painful defeat. A suddenly sluggish offense characterized by inconsistent play at quarterback.

STATE COLLEGE Football gets treated like life and death sometimes. After beating Ohio State, Penn State's national title hopes were a living, breathing thing.

An easy 15-yard catch netted senior Deon Butler a Penn State record. The reception was the 168th of the wideout's career, breaking the mark set by Bobby Engram that stood for 13 seasons.

When you think about Penn State's best teams over the last decade or so - which shouldn't take long - 2005 was a good year, 1999 not so much.

So many times this season, Iowa quarterback Ricky Stanzi has ridden the roller coaster that so often is the inaugural season for a college quarterback.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; - Penn State sophomore Evan Royster has been selected one of 10 semifinalists for the Doak Walker Award, an honor presented annually to the nation's top collegiate running back.

Joe Paterno knows what he will get out of his 14 seniors that will wrap up their college careers in the next few weeks.

Penn State now must tackle its toughest assignment. The Nittany Lions have to try to salvage their season after having their national championship hopes shattered Saturday in a 24-23 loss at Iowa.

Journal Register News Service For the first time in weeks, Penn State heads into a contest without the aid of a convenient, let's-rally-around-a-specific-cause kind of mentality.

Penn State coach Joe Paterno could care less about the Bowl Championship Series.

One way or another, Ohio State's defensive line was tired of all the talk. Maybe they got tired of hearing from other people how bad they were playing.

With a season that may hinge as much on results from Texas and Tuscaloosa as the three games left on its own schedule, Penn State has had two weeks to gear up for a month of debate regarding its rightful place ...

Evan Royster stiff arms Ohio State's Anderson Russell in Penn State's victory on Oct.

In August, the Big Ten was all about the spread. Penn State was on its way to the spread ranks with quarterback Daryll Clark and his fleet feet taking over the Nittany Lions' offense.

So Penn State did it. For the first time since they joined the Big Ten in 1993, the Nittany Lions went on the road and beat Ohio State.

Two Big Ten schools, two huge stadiums, two great defenses, and two upstart, dual-threat quarterbacks with no starting experience before this season.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Evan Royster has at least one fan who thinks he should be mentioned more in the Heisman Trophy race.

Joe Paterno spent most of the preseason telling anybody who would listen that he had three good quarterbacks.