DisruptU PSU Presents The Penn State Pulse With Dylan Dawson Do Not Underestimating Minnesota

DisruptU PSU Presents The Penn State Pulse with host Dylan Dawson. Listen as Dylan previews the upcoming game between Penn State and Minnesota. He discusses Minnesota's strengths, key players to watch, and offers predictions for the game. The conversation highlights the importance of not underestimating Minnesota, given their solid defensive performance and key offensive players. Dawson also shares insights on Penn State's recent struggles in road games and provides a score prediction for the matchup.

Takeaways

•Minnesota has a strong defensive record, allowing only 17.7 points per game.

•Gophers QB is an experienced quarterback who minimizes mistakes.

 •Darius Taylor is crucial to Minnesota's offensive success.

•Penn State has struggled in past road games against Minnesota.

•Dylan predicts Drew Allar will outpass Brosmer by 100 yards.

•Dylan predicts a final score of 24-13 in favor of Penn State.

•The game will showcase two strong secondaries against capable quarterbacks.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome back into the Penn State Pulse. I'm your host,
Dylan Dawson. Penn State travels to the Twin Cities to
take on a sneaky Minnesota team on Saturday. You guys
know the deal. It's want to know every week. You
can't look overlook anyone. This is a pretty good team
the Ninny Lions are facing up against on the road.
So let's jump into the basics. Minnesota is six and

(00:26):
four overall in the year. They have a few pretty
nice wins coming against Illinois, which I believe was on
the road, and then they also be usc They also
just came up just short in Ann Arbor, losing to
Michigan twenty seven to twenty four on the road. This
is a team that excels, particularly on the defensive side
of the ball. They're allowing seventeen point seven points per

(00:48):
game this season, which is good for twelfth in the country.
They have a lot of playmakers on that side of
the ball, which I'm gonna get into here in a
little bit. Offensively, the Gophers aren't gonna value with a
ton of explosives, but they've been that traditional, gritty, Big
ten offense that finds a way to stay in games.
Penn State has lost two straight road games at Minnesota

(01:10):
when you look at the game history coming in twenty
thirteen and of course twenty nineteen, which a lot of
us remember. Unfortunately, that game has given me a lot
of PDSD. So they'll look to snap that streak on Saturday.
It's not much of one, but still regardless, we'd like
to snap that. The line is sitting right now as
I'm recording at Penn State minus eleven and a half.

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It's been anywhere between ten and a half and I
believe fifteen and a half in the last week or so,
so jumping around a good bit for some reason. So
let's get into some guys to watch for Minnesota and
we will begin at the QB spot with Max Brosmer.
That is a New Hampshire transfer who's having a very
good fifth season of college football, his first with the Gophers.

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He has thrown for twenty two hundred fifty one yards
and fourteen touchdowns to four interceptions so far on the year.
He's also completing a bit over sixty seven percent of
his pass attempts. This is an experienced quarterback who doesn't
make many mistakes and will keep you in a lot
of games. I don't know if that reminds you, guys
of anyone just off of that quick breakdown, but he

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honestly reminds me a bit of Sean Clifford. Running back
Darius Taylor, that's probably their top guy on the offensive
side of the ball. I think he's gonna give us
Penn State fans some headaches this weekend. He is an
explosive and physical runner who has been highly productive on
the year with six hundred and seventy two yards and
nine touchdowns on about five yards per carry. They feed

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him the ball a lot when he's successful. Minnesota's offense
as a whole is typically successful, so Penn State will
need to shut him down early and often. It's a
similar situation to Tabbie Walker with Wisconsin. The offense kind
of runs through him, as Minnesota's runs through Darius Taylor.
They also tend to give him a heavier workload in
their bigger games. When they played Illy and beat them,

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he carried twenty two times for one hundred and thirty
one yards in a touchdown, and then he carried twenty
five times against USC for one hundred and forty four yards,
So they definitely like to give him the rock a
little bit more in their bigger stages. The Gophers leading
receiver is red shirt senior Daniel Jackson, who has collected
sixty three catches for seven hundred and twelve yards and

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three touchdowns on the season. He is kind of your
all around versatile receiver. They line him up both on
the boundary and in the slot on occasion. Alright. Moving
over to the defensive side of the ball, true freshman
safety Coy Perrich is a star in the making. He's
probably their top guy on that side of the ball.
He already has five picks on the year to go

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along with twenty one tackles and a force fumble. Paris
is a big, physical safety. I think he's like six two,
six one or six two and about two hundred pounds.
His elite ball skills, and it's not like he was
a diamond in the rough as a recruit either. On
three had this kid ranked as the number thirty five
overall in the country and the number two safety in
the class, and teams like Ohio State, USC and I

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believe Michigan were trying to flip them late, but the
Gophers were able to keep the Minnesota native home, and
it seems to already be paying dividends for them in
just his freshman year. Oh right, defensive lineman John Joyner
is the Gophers sack leader on the year with four
and a half so far. He's listed about six five
two sixty five, so he can line up anywhere along

(04:28):
the line. He also has twenty eight tackles, two for
his fumbles, and a pretty ridiculous seven passes defense. He
gets those long arms up and knocks down a bunch
of balls. They're leading tackler on the year is linebacker
Cody Lindenberg, with seventy six through ten games. He also
has six passes defense, a sack, and an interception. Lindenberg

(04:50):
is a pretty big backer, standing at about six three
two forty, but he's still deceptively quick for his size.
All right, moving on, Let's now jump in to some
game predictions. First up, these are two very good secondaries
going up against two very good qbs. But I think
the top guy at that position shines through on Saturday,

(05:11):
So give me Drew Aller out passing Max brosmer By
at least one hundred yards. Also, I apologize, I don't
know if it's Brasma or Brosmer. I think I've said
both so far, so just let's just roll with the
punches here. Next up, Zion Tracy has been looking pretty
good on those punt returns, and I think he is
due to break one in the near future. So give

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me a Zion Tracy punt return touchdown against the Gophers.
And finally, and I hope this is a jinx, I'm
gonna say that PSU has a scoreless first quarter. Penn
State has had slow starts in a lot of these
road games, so it'll likely continue this Saturday. I think
usc was really the only exception I wouldn't mind at
all if this prediction was the one that I got wrong.

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And then for the score prediction, I do see Penn
State eventually taking control of this game, probably at some
point in the second half, and pulling away to win
twenty four to thirteen. I think the offense struggles a bit,
but scores when it matters and gets the job done
against a stout and in my opinion, a bit underrated
Minnesota d and the defense limits Minnesota to a pretty

(06:18):
high degree, but the Gopher still find points at the
end of a few drives. Right so that is going
to do it for today's episode of the Penn State Pulse.
Thank you all so much for tuning in as always,
and I will see y'all after the game to break
it down.