I have never seen a press box this disinterested. The reporter sitting next to me departed at halftime. The 70 people in this room are all having their own side conversations. They chat about Oklahoma, debate the virtues of Auburn, and peer silently into their Tweetdeck monitors.
The wheels have fallen off the bus. With 7:51 remaining in the third quarter and Northwestern down 17-0, Paddy Fisher, Northwestern’s best player on the day so far, gets ejected for a targeting penalty. The three-possession deficit feels like a seatbelt made of titanium. Penn State scores twice more, once because Godwin Igwebuike got tripped the by the ref on a long Saquon Barkley run.