December 28, 2024

Third quarter: Penn State 21, Purdue football 17

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Third quarter

PENN STATE 21, PURDUE 17 – King Doerue 2 run (Mitchell Fineran kick). 9 plays, 75 yards. Time on clock: 11:16. Elapsed time: 3:44. Key play: Broc Thompson turned a short pass on third-and-3 into an 18-yard gain to the Penn State 10.

Second quarter

PENN STATE 21, PURDUE 10 – Brenton Strange 67 pass from Sean Clifford (Jake Pinegar kick). 2 plays, 82 yards. Time on clock: 0:02. Elapsed time: 0:28.

PENN STATE 14, PURDUE 10 – Sean Clifford 2 run (Jake Pinegar kick). 8 plays, 43 yards. Time on clock: 1:44. Elapsed time: 4:30. Key play: A roughing the passer penalty on Lawrence Johnson turned a third-and-6 into a first-and-goal.

PURDUE 10, PENN STATE 7 – King Doerue 3 run (Mitchell Fineran kick). 8 plays, 75 yards. Time on clock: 9:43. Elapsed time: 3:26. Key plays: Purdue picked up 30 yards via penalty, one for a targeting call and another on pass interference that set up Purdue at the 12-yard line.

PENN STATE 7, PURDUE 0 – Mitchell Tinsley 12 pass from Sean Clifford (Jake Pinegar kick). 12 plays, 79 yards. Time on clock: 13:09. Elapsed time: 5:23. Key plays: Penn State converted on a pair of third downs and Devyn Ford gained 12 yards on a catch out of the backfield on a fourth-and-2 from the Purdue 29.

First quarter

PURDUE 3, PENN STATE 0 – Mitchell Fineran 36 field goal. 10 plays, 63 yards. Time on clock: 3:38. Elapsed time: 4:30. Key play: Transfer fifth-year receiver Charlie Jones snagged a 30-yard pass from Aidan O’Connell to get to the Penn State 25.

WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue and Penn State open the season with an 8:05 p.m. kickoff broadcast on Fox.

The Boilermakers are 3-15-1 all-time against Penn State and lost the most recent meeting 35-7 in 2019. Purdue hasn’t defeated the Nittany Lions 2004. Purdue is 78-50-6 all-time in season openers and 92-37-4 all-time in home openers.

Purdue Pete plays along with the band perform as Purdue University football team’s bus pulls up to the stadium before the NCAA football game between the Purdue Boilermakers and the Penn State Nittany Lions, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, at Ross-Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Ind.

This article originally appeared on Lafayette Journal & Courier: Third quarter: Penn State 21, Purdue football 17

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