The 2023 season's largest margin: Penn State 63, Massachusetts 0. A 63-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2023 — The Top-10 Year
Penn State finished 2023 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
- Drew AllarQB2,631 passing yards
- Kaytron AllenRB902 rushing yards
- Nicholas SingletonRB752 rushing yards
- Beau PribulaQB329 rushing yards
- Keandre LambertWR673 receiving yards
- Tyler WarrenTE422 receiving yards
- Theo JohnsonTE341 receiving yards
- Kevin Winston Jr.S60 tackles
- Kobe KingLB59 tackles
- Curtis JacobsLB50 tackles
- Adisa IsaacDE7.5 sacks
- Johnny DixonCB4.5 sacks
- Abdul CarterDE4.5 sacks
Season leaders, 2023.
The season's deepest loss: Penn State 25, Ole Miss 38. A 13-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Penn State fell to Ole Miss 25-38 in the postseason.
"We Are."
2023 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.