Report Card: Grading Penn State’s performance at Iowa

The grades are in for Penn State after its first loss of the year. Some highs, but too many lows.

Penn State fell to Iowa 23-20 in a nail-biter. As predicted by many, this was merely a defensive battle between both teams.

Let’s take a look at the report card and grade the performance of Penn State today.

Quarterbacks: D+

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There were certainly a few flashes here in there from Sean Clifford, but the quarterback play was not there today once Clifford was knocked out of the game. The offense was off to a bad start, but then slowly started to get things going. Overall, it wasn’t the best performance from the quarterbacks.

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