It comes down to not making crucial mistakes against great teams. Special teams isn't even a horse abortion right now. It's that thing Voldemort turns into at the end of Deathly Hallows part 2. ST is losing OSU this game, straight up. It's given PSU 7 points directly and the ball on the OSU 20 yard line the other time. Maybe PSU scores on those drives anyway, maybe they don't, but if you play a boxing match with one hand tied behind your back, you're going to get your ass beat no matter how talented and hyped you are.
The domino effect from having the ST errors has caused the DL to start over rushing and over pursuing, which is giving PSU drives life via scrambles. Can't have that. Games over if that keeps happening. D has to man up and stop them from here on out. That's a huge task and had to imagine, but it's the hard truth.
The offense has played well. They're on pace for 500 yards, and that's against a top defense and with the disappearance of the most dynamic player in Dobbins after the first 3 or 4 drives. But if ST and the DL don't settle down, it won't matter. If you can fix these 2 things though, and that's a HUGE if, you have a shot at coming back and making this an even game late in the 4th. If you can't, then it's a loss, and a bad loss at that. There's nothing else to be said.
