Misery Index Week 7: Penn State can’t compete with the best teams in the Big Ten
The stench of fraudulence around Penn State had been masked by the sweet, sweet aroma of two Mid-American Conference patsies, by Northwestern’s embrace of incompetence and by catching one of the worst Auburn teams of the past quarter-century.
It even fooled James Franklin, apparently. Always the salesman, Franklin spent this past week claiming that his 5-0 team was “better equipped” this year to handle the Michigan defense and avoid becoming one-dimensional because it can’t run the ball.