Wisconsin Erases 17-Point Hole, Stuns Penn State 24-20
Wisconsin threw three interceptions, one of them returned 51 yards for a touchdown, trailed 17-0 in the second quarter, and still beat Penn State 24-20. Take away the pick-six and this is a 24-13 Wisconsin win. That is not how it went, and that is the fun part.
Penn State scored first on a 22-yard Ryan Barker field goal, then Josiah Zayas took that interception back for a score and Rocco Becht ran in from 3 yards to make it 17-0. Colton Joseph got Wisconsin on the board with a 7-yard run late in the second quarter, and Gavin Lahm kicked a 34-yarder in the third. Barker answered with a 37-yarder, so Penn State led 20-10 after three quarters.
Then came the fourth. Joseph hit Eugene Hilton Jr. from 11 yards out with 3:31 left to make it 20-17. Next came the one that mattered: 72 yards to tight end Jacob Harris with 1:13 on the clock, and Wisconsin led for the first time, 24-20. That was 14 points in the last 3:31, and Penn State's last score had come back in the third quarter.
The box score is lopsided in the wrong direction for Penn State. Wisconsin gained 355 yards to 233, and Penn State's passing game produced 114 yards, with Becht at 12 of 29 and an interception of his own. Wisconsin's three interceptions to Penn State's one did not matter in the end.
Both teams are 3-1. For fantasy, Joseph's 31.3 points were nearly 10 more than anyone else had, and Harris's 105 yards were a season high by a long way.