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Penn State and Illinois meet Saturday night at Beaver Stadium in one of the biggest early-season clashes in the Big Ten ...

Penn State moved No. 9 in the latest AP Top 25 poll this week following last week's 56-0 drubbing of Kent State and now ...

This group, and Penn State's defense as a whole, will face its most difficult work yet Saturday. The undefeated Illini are ...

Find out the Illinois Fighting Illini vs. Penn State football betting odds, over/under and point spread on Saturday, Sept. 28 ...

Big Ten rivals square off in Happy Valley, one looking for its first conference victory and another hoping to make it 2-0 as ...

The last time Penn State played against Luke Altmyer, he threw four interceptions and was sacked once in the Nittany Lions’ ...

Illinois has a huge challenge in front of it on Saturday night in Happy Valley. The No. 19 Illini will head to No. 9 Penn ...

PSU is ranked No. 10 in the latest AP Poll, which is to be expected. But Illinois has been a pleasant surprise thus far. Coach Bret Bielema’s squad is 3-0, headlined by a win over then-No. 19 ...

Franklin was asked about the value of playing Kent State, which comes off a 71-0 loss at Tennessee and ranks last among FBS ...

Penn State football’s homecoming game will be a late one — the Sept. 28 game against Illinois will kick off at 7 or 7:30 p.m., the athletics department announced Monday. The game’s ...

Coming off a bye week, Penn State will face off with Kent State at home (3:30 p.m. ET, BTN) to try to get back into a groove after Bowling Green threw a scare into the Nittany Lions in Week Two.