Penn State's Franklin on another big-game loss: 'I own it all'

STATE COLLEGE, Dad. -- Penn State coach James Franklin made the recognizable walk after a big-game misfortune, ceasing to talk with previous players and other notables on his way off the field Saturday at Beaver Stadium.

He strolled through the conclusion zone where No. 3 Penn State had twice fizzled to score from first-and-goal interior the 5-yard line against No. 4 Ohio State. Some time recently coming to the Triumph Chime another to the group burrow, Franklin had a brief trade with two fans addressing the playcalling on the moment goal-to-go grouping of Saturday's 20-13 misfortune some time recently 111,030, the biggest swarm ever at Beaver Stadium. At that point, Franklin headed up the burrow to address his group after its eighth successive misfortune to Ohio State, the fourth at home.

Penn State's most recent big-game vanquish beneath Franklin came down to two fizzled chances interior Ohio State's 5-yard line, a few awkward punishments, a few basic administering calls and an offense that couldn't reach the conclusion zone indeed once, in spite of being spotted a 10-0 lead less than 10 minutes into the diversion. But the result, no matter how it happened, will be gathered in with others beneath Franklin, who fell to 1-12 against AP top-10 groups at Penn State and 1-15 by and large as an FBS coach.

Franklin said he "gets it" the fans' frustration.

"We get an mind boggling swarm here; we get extraordinary bolster," he said. "You do not do that without energy, and there's extraordinary things that come from that, and there's difficult things that come from that. That's portion of the work, and I possess it all."

Franklin, looking for his to begin with College Football Playoff appearance in spite of a 95-40 record at Penn State, has not beaten Ohio State since 2016, which checked the Lions' final Huge Ten title. The Buckeyes made strides to 10-1 against Franklin, who has six AP top-20 wraps up since 2016 but none in the beat five.

"There's no one that's looking in the reflect harder than I am," Franklin said. "Ninety-nine percent of the programs over college football would kick the bucket to do what we've been able to do in our time here. But I moreover get it when you're at a put like Penn State, there's truly, truly tall desires. ... I get it, I completely get it."

Franklin included that he had arranged to address a few things in his postgame news conference but chosen they were "not fitting to say right presently." He afterward alluded to "a ton of calls, 50-50 calls that can go either way, and in that sort of amusement, they're critical."

Quarterback Drew Allar said Penn State "didn't win sufficient minutes" Saturday, counting the significant turnover on downs with 5:13 to play. After a coordinate snap to do-it-all tight conclusion Tyler Warren went for 33 yards, Penn State's longest play of the amusement, the offense was set up at Ohio State's 3-yard line. But three Kaytron Allen runs up the center gotten small, and on fourth down Allar couldn't interface with tight conclusion Khalil Dinkins, who was well covered.

"We needed to get it to Ty Warren," said Allar, who returned from a knee damage to pass for 146 yards with an capture attempts in the conclusion zone late in the to begin with half, and surge for 31. "The security or nickel did a great work of playing over the best of it and driving it. It would have been a bang-bang play, brief of the objective line or fragmented. I was looking at Dink. We fair didn't interface on it."

Penn State's defense, which had held Ohio State out of the conclusion zone since early in the moment quarter, had a chance to make a halt and recapture ownership. But Ohio State's hurrying trident of Quinshon Judkins, TreVeyon Henderson and Will Howard overwhelmed the Lions, as the Buckeyes ran out the clock.

The Buckeyes, who had a season-low 64 surging yards final week against Nebraska, wrapped up with 176 yards Saturday.

"Kind of a sucky feeling," linebacker Kobe Lord said. "We plan all week, and we do certain things to certain bundles and inclusions. We fair didn't execute it the way it's assumed to be. Botches were made. Folks have to be in the right spots."

Several Penn State players avoided fault from Franklin and repeated their bolster for the 11th-year coach. In past a long time, misfortunes like Saturday's disposed of Penn State from CFP dispute, but the extended field keeps the 7-1 Lions exceptionally much in the mix.

Still, there's a acknowledgment that coaches and groups are assessed based on diversions like Saturday's.

"If you're not judging yourself after a amusement like this, at that point that questions your adore for the amusement," hostile lineman Sal Wormley said. "Like, there's no way you go into a diversion like this, entirely point fingers at other individuals. There has to be something you seem have done."

Penn State wraps up the customary season with four unranked adversaries -- Washington, Purdue, Minnesota and Maryland -- some time recently anticipating its postseason fate.

"OK, we misplaced, presently we require to keep it pushing, since that seem exceptionally well be the distinction between you winning a national championship and you not winning a national championship," protective lineman Dvon J-Thomas said. "So how we react to this misfortune will be a huge pointer as to the sort of group we are, and the sort of group you'll see in the playoffs."