STATE COLLEGE — When Penn State football couldn't get anything going early on against SMU on Saturday, it was shaping up to be a closely-contested College Football Playoff game in Happy Valley.

With sixth-seeded Penn State off to a somewhat jittery start on Saturday against SMU in the first round of the College Football Playoff, the Nittany Lions needed a jolt. DeLuca provided two.

Penn State linebacker Dominic DeLuca (0) runs with the ball after making an interception during the college football playoff game against SMU at Beaver Stadium on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024.

The 11th-seeded SMU Mustangs and sixth-seeded Penn State Nittany Lions meet in a first-round College Football Playoff matchup on Saturday at University Park, Pa. The winner will advance to face ...

SMU Mustangs quarterback Preston Stone committed to the Northwestern Wildcats out of the transfer portal on Saturday afternoon, according to Pete Nakos of On3. Stone, who was a third-team All-AAC ...

Alongside 10-2 Miami and fellow 9-3 SEC squads Alabama and South Carolina, they were passed up for the 11th and 12th seeds in the playoff for Indiana and SMU (No. 12 Clemson was an auto-bid ...

College football fans looking to watch Saturday’s game between No. 6 Penn State and No. 11 SMU might have briefly struggled to see it on their televisions, as the broadcast is being carried by TNT.

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Eleventh-seeded SMU is set to make its College Football Playoff debut when it faces six-seed Penn State at Beaver Stadium on Saturday at 11 a.m. on TNT. • The Mustangs earned their first ever bid to ...

The Penn State football team is coming off of a letdown performance against the top ranked Oregon Ducks in the Big Ten Championship Game and looking to rebound against the SMU Mustangs this weeken ...

SMU was a national power in the early 1980s — the Mustangs went 11-0-1 in 1982 only to finish No. 2 behind undefeated Penn State — before a pay-for-play scheme led the NCAA to give the program ...

SMU head coach Rhett Lashlee, quarterbacks Preston Stone (2) and quarterback Kevin Jennings (7) lead the team onto the field before the first half of the ACC championship game against Clemson ...