Final
Penn State demolishes Wisconsin to remain unbeaten
Oct 12, 2008 - 4:34 AM MADISON, Wisconsin (Ticker) -- Joe Paterno ended up with a broken leg and an ugly loss in Penn State's last visit to Camp Randall Stadium.With the legendary coach watching from a safe distance two years later, the Nittany Lions returned the favor - and then some.
Darryl Clark threw a touchdown pass and rushed for two scores Saturday as sixth-ranked Penn State routed No. 24 Wisconsin, 48-7, in a Big Ten Conference blowout.
Evan Royster ran for 60 yards and a TD while cornerback Lydell Sargeant had a pair of interceptions for the Nittany Lions (7-0, 3-0 Big Ten), who are off to their best start since 1999.
"Well, no offense, but Wisconsin gave us the ball multiple times," Paterno said. "Well, I thought we'd win. I didn't think we'd win by 41, but anybody who thought we'd win by 41 hasn't been in the game very long."
The last time Penn State visited Wisconsin, Paterno suffered a broken left leg in a sideline collision during the Nittany Lions' 13-3 loss on November 4, 2006.
The 81-year-old Paterno, who currently is nursing a sore hip, watched Saturday night's contest from Penn State's press box - and he must have been happy with his high-flying team's latest performance.
The Nittany Lions never trailed and scored the game's final 31 points en route to handing Wisconsin (3-3, 0-3) its worst home defeat since a 51-3 loss to Miami in 1989. The Badgers have lost two straight here for the first time since the 2002 season.
"They all are big games and they are all losses," Wisconsin coach Brett Bielema said. "Every loss hurts; depending on how the game goes down and how you execute in the end, it takes a lot out of you, but as a coach they all hurt."
Royster's 2-yard TD run and Derrick Williams' 63-yard score off a punt return gave Penn State a 17-0 lead early in the second quarter.
"I only saw one replay of it and they got leverage out of our left tackle and our left wing and sealed everybody else back inside," Bielema said. "They started in the middle and it broke out to our left."
Wisconsin clawed within 17-7 on quarterback Allan Evridge's 5-yard TD run with 4:21 left in the first half.
Still reeling from last weekend's last-minute loss to Ohio State, the Badgers regained possession at their own 8-yard line with 1:40 remaining in the half.
But on the first play of the possession, Evridge was stripped of the ball by Aaron Maybin. The loose ball skipped forward along the turf before being picked up by Penn State's Josh Hull at the Wisconsin 16.
Two plays later, Clark scored on a 2-yard keeper to give Penn State a 24-7 halftime lead.
The Nittany Lions kept rolling in the second half, as Clark completed 4-of-5 passes on their opening drive before scoring on a 4-yard run. The junior quarterback hooked up with Deon Butler for a 44-yard TD midway through the third quarter to make it 38-7.
"You know, I've been in some ball games where it turned around so fast, it'd make your head spin," Paterno said about his late-game playcalling. "I thought when we came out in the third quarter we needed to get on the board a couple times.
"I maybe played the first string a little longer than I should have and given the younger kids a chance, but one big play here, one big play there, and it gets to be a dogfight. "
Clark finished 16-of-25 for 244 yards for the Nittany Lions, who have won consecutive Big Ten road games for the first time since 1999 - when they won the league title.
"You know, I was nervous earlier in the week and then as the week went on, I wasn't," Paterno said. "I just knew that these guys were ready to play. And if they were better than we were, they'd be better than we were. But where we are right now, we've got football to play.
"You see games like Oklahoma and Texas and I thought Oklahoma was going to kill them. I saw the first quarter, and I was shocked when I heard Texas beat them. So you never know. Too many big teams are equal. It seems now with the talent anybody can just about beat anybody on a certain day."
- ** CONFIRMED **
NCAAF
PENN ST (6) 48
WISCONSIN (24) 7 FINAL
Oct 11 11:10 PM
TD PENN ST PAT DEVLIN 1 YD RUN (KEVIN KELLY KICK)
Penn State(6) 48, Wisconsin(16) 7 4th - 2:40Oct 11 11:03 PM
TD PENN ST PAT DEVLIN 1 YD RUN (KEVIN KELLY KICK)
Penn State(6) 48, Wisconsin(16) 7 4th - 2:40Oct 11 11:03 PM- NCAAF
TD PENN ST
PAT DEVLIN 1 YD RUN
(KEVIN KELLY KICK)
PENN ST (6) 48
WISCONSIN 7 2:40 LEFT, 4TH QTR
Penn State(6) 48, Wisconsin(16) 7 4th - 2:40Oct 11 11:03 PM - NCAAF END, 3RD QTR
1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL
--- --- --- --- -----
PENN ST (6) 3 21 17 41
WISCONSIN 0 7 0 7 END, 3RD QTR
SCORING SUMMARY
1ST QUARTER: PENN ST - FG, KEVIN KELLY 50 YD, 9:32. PENN
ST 3-0
2ND QUARTER: PENN ST - TD, EVAN ROYSTER 2 YD RUN (KEVIN
KELLY KICK), 4:14. PENN ST
10-0
PENN ST - TD, DERRICK WILLIAMS 41 YD PUNT
RE
Oct 11 10:29 PM - NCAAF
FG PENN ST
KEVIN KELLY 30 YD
PENN ST (6) 41
WISCONSIN 7 3:11 LEFT, 3RD QTR
Penn State(6) 41, Wisconsin(16) 7 3rd - 3:11Oct 11 10:19 PM
TD PENN ST DEON BUTLER 44 YD PASS FROM DARYLL CLARK (KEVIN KELLY KICK)
Penn State(6) 38, Wisconsin(16) 7 3rd - 7:22Oct 11 10:08 PM
TD PENN ST DEON BUTLER 44 YD PASS FROM DARYLL CLARK (KEVIN KELLY KICK)
Penn State(6) 38, Wisconsin(16) 7 3rd - 7:22Oct 11 10:08 PM
TD PENN ST DEON BUTLER 44 YD PASS FROM DARYLL CLARK (KEVIN KELLY KICK)
Penn State(6) 38, Wisconsin(16) 7 3rd - 7:22Oct 11 10:08 PM- NCAAF
TD PENN ST
DEON BUTLER 44 YD PASS FROM DARYLL CLARK
(KEVIN KELLY KICK)
PENN ST (6) 38
WISCONSIN 7 7:22 LEFT, 3RD QTR
Penn State(6) 38, Wisconsin(16) 7 3rd - 7:22Oct 11 10:08 PM
TD PENN ST DARYLL CLARK 4 YD RUN (KEVIN KELLY KICK)
Penn State(6) 31, Wisconsin(16) 7 3rd - 12:27Oct 11 9:52 PM
TD PENN ST DARYLL CLARK 4 YD RUN (KEVIN KELLY KICK)
Penn State(6) 31, Wisconsin(16) 7 3rd - 12:27Oct 11 9:52 PM- NCAAF
TD PENN ST
DARYLL CLARK 4 YD RUN
(KEVIN KELLY KICK)
PENN ST (6) 31
WISCONSIN 7 12:27 LEFT, 3RD QTR
Penn State(6) 31, Wisconsin(16) 7 3rd - 12:27Oct 11 9:52 PM - NCAAF HALFTIME
1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL
--- --- --- --- -----
PENN ST (6) 3 21 24
WISCONSIN 0 7 7 HALFTIME
SCORING SUMMARY
1ST QUARTER: PENN ST - FG, KEVIN KELLY 50 YD, 9:32. PENN
ST 3-0
2ND QUARTER: PENN ST - TD, EVAN ROYSTER 2 YD RUN (KEVIN
KELLY KICK), 4:14. PENN ST
10-0
PENN ST - TD, DERRICK WILLIAMS 41 YD PUNT
RETURN (KE
Oct 11 9:24 PM
TD PENN ST DARYLL CLARK 2 YD RUN (KEVIN KELLY KICK)
Penn State(6) 24, Wisconsin(16) 7 2nd - 1:24Oct 11 9:18 PM
TD PENN ST DARYLL CLARK 2 YD RUN (KEVIN KELLY KICK)
Penn State(6) 24, Wisconsin(16) 7 2nd - 1:24Oct 11 9:18 PM- NCAAF
TD PENN ST
DARYLL CLARK 2 YD RUN
(KEVIN KELLY KICK)
PENN ST (6) 24
WISCONSIN 7 1:24 LEFT, 2ND QTR
Penn State(6) 24, Wisconsin(16) 7 2nd - 1:24Oct 11 9:18 PM
TD WISCONSIN ALLAN EVRIDGE 5 YD RUN (PHILIP WELCH KICK)
Penn State(6) 17, Wisconsin(16) 7 2nd - 4:22Oct 11 9:05 PM
TD WISCONSIN ALLAN EVRIDGE 5 YD RUN (PHILIP WELCH KICK)
Penn State(6) 17, Wisconsin(16) 7 2nd - 4:22Oct 11 9:05 PM- NCAAF
TD WISCONSIN
ALLAN EVRIDGE 5 YD RUN
(PHILIP WELCH KICK)
PENN ST (6) 17
WISCONSIN 7 4:22 LEFT, 2ND QTR
Penn State(6) 17, Wisconsin(16) 7 2nd - 4:22Oct 11 9:05 PM
TD PENN ST DERRICK WILLIAMS 41 YD PUNT RETURN (KEVIN KELLY KICK)
Penn State(6) 17, Wisconsin(16) 0 2nd - 10:11Oct 11 8:52 PM
TD PENN ST DERRICK WILLIAMS 41 YD PUNT RETURN (KEVIN KELLY KICK)
Penn State(6) 17, Wisconsin(16) 0 2nd - 10:11Oct 11 8:52 PM- NCAAF
TD PENN ST
DERRICK WILLIAMS 41 YD PUNT RETURN
(KEVIN KELLY KICK)
PENN ST (6) 17
WISCONSIN 0 10:11 LEFT, 2ND QTR
Penn State(6) 17, Wisconsin(16) 0 2nd - 10:11Oct 11 8:52 PM
TD PENN ST EVAN ROYSTER 2 YD RUN (KEVIN KELLY KICK)
Penn State(6) 10, Wisconsin(16) 0 2nd - 10:46Oct 11 8:45 PM
TD PENN ST EVAN ROYSTER 2 YD RUN (KEVIN KELLY KICK)
Penn State(6) 10, Wisconsin(16) 0 2nd - 10:46Oct 11 8:45 PM- NCAAF
TD PENN ST
EVAN ROYSTER 2 YD RUN
(KEVIN KELLY KICK)
PENN ST (6) 10
WISCONSIN 0 10:46 LEFT, 2ND QTR
Penn State(6) 10, Wisconsin(16) 0 2nd - 10:46Oct 11 8:45 PM - NCAAF END, 1ST QTR
1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL
--- --- --- --- -----
PENN ST (6) 3 3
WISCONSIN 0 0 END, 1ST QTR
SCORING SUMMARY
1ST QUARTER: PENN ST - FG, KEVIN KELLY 50 YD, 9:32. PENN
ST 3-0
Oct 11 8:35 PM - NCAAF
FG PENN ST
KEVIN KELLY 50 YD
PENN ST (6) 3
WISCONSIN 0 5:28 LEFT, 1ST QTR
Penn State(6) 3, Wisconsin(16) 0 1st - 5:28Oct 11 8:19 PM - 45
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