The 2017 season's largest margin: Penn State 66, Maryland 3. A 63-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2017 — The Top-10 Year
Penn State finished 2017 inside the final AP top-10. The top-10 is the tier the program calibrates annual expectation against.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Trace McSorleyQB3,570 passing yards
- Saquon BarkleyRB1,271 rushing yards
- DaeSean HamiltonWR857 receiving yards
- Juwan JohnsonWR701 receiving yards
- Mike GesickiTE563 receiving yards
- Jason CabindaLB88 tackles
- Marcus AllenS71 tackles
- Brandon SmithLB62 tackles
- Shareef MillerDE5 sacks
- Shaka ToneyDE4 sacks
- Kevin GivensDT3.5 sacks
Season leaders, 2017.
The season's deepest loss: Penn State 24, Michigan State 27. A 3-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Penn State beat Washington 35-28 in the postseason.
"We Are."
2017 is a middle chapter for Penn State — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.