Fans invest a lot of mental energy into the idea that teams go "plain vanilla" in early-season games and hold out a large part of their offense for tougher opponents.
Penn State head coach James Franklin put that idea into a sleeper hold in his Monday press conference, "Are you saving things? I think you're always-- I don't know if saving is the idea but you've done some offseason studies where there's certain things you've worked on during training camp that you're planning on using against certain opponents."
"There's some things you could have used early in the season but you didn't feel like you didn't needed to?