It definitely wasn’t looking quite for Penn State after 55 minutes of football hadactually been played. Fortunately for the Nittany Lions, college football is a 60-minute videogame, and quarterback Sean Clifford made the most of it with some late-game heroics. Clifford hit running back Keyvone Lee for a 10-yard goal with 57 seconds left in the videogame to provide Penn State a 35-31 success at Purdue on Thursday night.
Clifford passed for 4 goals and ran for one more in the triumph. It all takenplace on a night when he momentarily left the videogame in the 3rd quarter, and he ended his season launching with 282 passing lawns and 11 hurrying backyards.
Penn State held a 21-10 lead at halftime thanks in big part to tight end Brenton Strange scoring on a 67-yard pass in the closing seconds of the veryfirst half, courtesy of some broken dealswith and strong stopping as he downed the rest of the field. But Purdue quarterback Aidan O’Connell led Purdue to a strong 3rd quarter that saw the house group rating 2 goals and work the Penn State defense to excellence at times. Penn State’s offense was out of sync in the 3rd quarter as Clifford left the videogame briefly for an undis