The Nittany Lions moved up to #8 in this week’s College Football Playoff Rankings, the penultimate rankings of 2022.
The final week of the season before championship week saw multiple teams previously ranked ahead of Penn State lose in their final game of the regular season, with LSU getting their third loss (and still heading to the SEC Championship game) at the hands of a Texas A&M squad that may be sitting home in the post-season, and Clemson getting their second loss at the hands of a South Carolina team that upset Tennessee (by, like, A LOT) just the week before.