It was worse then 14 points

As a Penn State fan I have to be honest I did bet against them as I just knew USC would ring them up much more than the 10 point line. For all the hoopla of the Rose Bowl this one should have been a good one and at the end it was, but there is a first half of every football game.

Much to the surprise of everyone when USC scored first the Nittany Lions marched right down the field and answered that score with there own. With the score tied 7-7 what I watched happened next reminded me of a Super Bow XXIIl between the Washington Redskins and the Denver Broncos. In the XXII Denver fell apart after an early second quarter turnover and watched as Washington rung up 35 points in that one quarter. No matter what Washington did it went well during that quarter. The result was the AFC got drubbed in the big game again.

Fast forward to the '09 Rose Bowl. USC has the ball on there side of the field and what looks to be a QB sack and turnover into Penn States hands was called back due to an offside penalty. Completely unacceptable since the lineman actually lined up offsides he didn't anticipate the snap count and get caught.
From that point on in the second quarter USC could do nothing wrong and Penn State could do nothing right. Halftime score of 31-7 said it all. Penn State only had to play for pride in the second half and hopefully prevent this from being an epic blow out.

Penn State won the second half and actually wrung up more point in the second half on USC then all the teams combined that played USC this year. USC was known for shutting down teams in the second half, this didn't happen yesterday. Minus the second quarter the game belonged to Penn State even with the interceptions in the fourth quarter, but a game has four quarters and two halves and PSU didn't show up in one of those quarters.

Now the homers are proclaiming that USC is the best team in the nation to which I doubt seriously. I believe OU is and I have another week to see if they are. I believe USC and OU would be a game for the ages it is too bad that USC faltered to Oregon State and this game will NOT take place. OU lost to Texas when Texas was ranked near the top, USC lost to Oregon State when they(USC) were on top and Oregon State was a middle of the raod ranked team.