The 2020 season's largest margin: Penn State 56, Illinois 21. A 35-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2020 — The Correction
2020 is a losing-side chapter for Penn State. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Sean CliffordQB1,877 passing yards
- Will LevisQB421 passing yards
- Keyvone LeeRB438 rushing yards
- Devyn FordRB274 rushing yards
- Caziah HolmesRB227 rushing yards
- Jahan DotsonWR884 receiving yards
- Parker WashingtonWR489 receiving yards
- Pat FreiermuthTE310 receiving yards
- Jesse LuketaLB59 tackles
- Ellis BrooksLB58 tackles
- Jaquan BriskerS57 tackles
- Shaka ToneyDE5 sacks
- Antonio SheltonDL3.5 sacks
- Shane SimmonsDE3 sacks
Season leaders, 2020.
The season's deepest loss: Penn State 21, Iowa 41. A 20-point margin the season is remembered by.
"We Are."
2020 sits in Penn State's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.