Nightcap Hour 2: USC HANDLES Penn State + UCLA TAKES CARE of Oregon + Ohio State KEEPS ROLLING vs Maryland + Ole Miss BACK ON TRACK + Tennessee BEATS Arkansas + Missouri BEATS DOWN Texas A&M + Cardinals TO TRADE Marvin Harrison Jr. + OBJ ELEVATED to Vik

Shannon Sharpe (0:01)

USC, USC survives Penn State, 31-23. The Trojan defense come up big with a fumble recovery to shut down the Nittany Lions' hope of an upset. Penn State is still wearless in the conference, and the Nittany Lions are now three and three. The same record that got James Franklin fired last year.

Does Penn State wish they had their ex back?

Chad Johnson (0:27)

I mean, might as well. Sometime you fire your coach, obviously you want a new coach in, you want the players to hear a new voice, but you're still in the same position. You're in the same position for a reason.

In order to have the success that Penn State used to have, or they're used to having in the past, you got to have the players. You got to have the product, Joe. You got to have the product, because it doesn't matter who you bring in, you hear me? You can bring Jesus and the 12 disciples, as your assistant coaches, if you ain't got nobody on the field that's going to get the job and be able to execute the X and O's, this is going to be the result.

Shannon Sharpe (1:09)

USC finally got the defense to show up and make a play for them.

Chad Johnson (1:14)

Yeah.

Joe Johnson (1:16)

What is it, man?

Shannon Sharpe (1:16)

The USC ain't getting the players they normally used to get? The old California players going to Oregon, going to Ohio State, going all over the place.

They going all over the state, bro.

Joe Johnson (1:25)

Why is that?

Shannon Sharpe (1:26)

Because they fell on hard times.

Joe Johnson (1:31)

Come on, man.

Chad Johnson (1:32)

And when you think about it, too, Unc, USC got money.

Joe Johnson (1:34)

Yeah.

Shannon Sharpe (1:35)

Hell yeah, they got money.

Chad Johnson (1:37)

Yeah, I mean, where you think they rank when it comes to the top 10 schools in NIO? They probably not even top 10, huh?

Shannon Sharpe (1:47)

Maybe 10 I would think Ohio State and the SEC schools, Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Texas A&M, LSU. I think they would.

But they got it. Hey, they got hookups. Got all them big movie studios out there, all those big wigs. Yeah, they got money.

Joe Johnson (2:11)

But why they ain't used to hell?

Shannon Sharpe (2:14)

We used to see USC, bro, being at the top of the charts.

Chad Johnson (2:18)

Every time.

Shannon Sharpe (2:19)

Think about it. Bryce Young from California with Alabama. CJ Stry from California with the Ohio State.

Chad Johnson (2:25)

Ohio State. They letting the best players get out of there.

Shannon Sharpe (2:31)

See, once you get the reputation, think about all the top receivers, where they go? I don't care where they from. They go into Ohio State. Because Ohio State over the last decade, why receiver after why receiver after why receiver? Going first round, come from Ohio State.

So if you're a quarterback, that's where you wanna go.

Joe Johnson (2:51)

Yeah.

Shannon Sharpe (2:51)

You wanna go to Ohio State.

Joe Johnson (2:52)

Yeah, they gon have to be play receivers.

Shannon Sharpe (2:53)

Cause you got great players to throw the ball to.

Joe Johnson (2:57)

Yeah, yeah.

Shannon Sharpe (2:58)

I'm with you.

Cause early on, people used to say, man, if Coach Saban could get him a quarterback, could get him a quarterback, you would tell Coach Saban to throw the damn ball and he can get a quarterback. He get Lane Kiffin, they start throwing the ball, he get Tua to come down there. He get Mac Jones to come down there. He get Bryce Young to come down there. Todd Simpson, Keelan Russell. Yeah. If I'm a throw, Ocho, if I'm a receiver, I'm not going to block, I'm not going to old Oklahoma and Nebraska where they run the Wishbone and I, I'm going somewhere they run to shoot. They go throw the damn ball. Yeah.

Chad Johnson (3:39)

Ball, yeah.

Joe Johnson (3:40)

Oh, hold on, Oklahoma throw that thing up.

Shannon Sharpe (3:41)

They throw it now, but I'm saying back in the 80s. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Chad Johnson (3:45)

They weren't throwing nothing. Yeah. Nah.

Shannon Sharpe (3:53)

And so we'll see it, but Penn State, it wasn't that Penn State was losing because they were going 8-3-9-3. It's just that James Franklin, every time he'd be number one, he could not beat Ohio State. Big meaningful games, he somehow found a way to lose. But Penn State's finding out it's not as easy, it seems, because guess what? Ohio State is Ohio State, Indiana's gotten better.

So what you thought was bad, and we just can't beat Ohio State. Now, hell, you struggling, you can't beat Indiana either.