TSN will broadcast the first-round matchup between the SMU Mustangs and Penn State Nittany Lions in the College Football Playoffs on Saturday.
Saturday is set to be a jam-packed day full of football on TSN with the first round of the College Football Playoffs in full swing, along with a pair of marquee NFL matchups.Kevin Jennings leads the SMU Mustangs into Happy Valley for a matchup against Drew Allar and the Penn State Nittany Lions. Watch SMU battle Penn State in the first round of the college football playoffs LIVE Saturday at 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. PT on TSN 2, TSN .ca, and the TSN App.
The Mustangs finished as the top seed in Atlantic Coastal Conference this season with an 11-2 record, but fell to Dabo Swinney’s Clemson Tigers in a dramatic finish to the ACC title game. Jennings, a first-year starter, threw a four-yard touchdown pass with just 0:16 seconds remaining in regulation to tie the game at 31-31, before a 41-yard return on the ensuing kickoff put the Tigers into field goal range. Freshman kicker Nolan Hauser came on and drilled a walk-off 56-yard field goal with no time remaining, giving Clemson their eighth conference title in 10 years. After the game, SMU head coach Rhett Lashlee said it would be “criminal” for his team to be left out of the new 12-team college football playoff format after going undefeated in conference play this season. The committee agreed with Lashlee, and ultimately ranked SMU inside the 12-team cutline over the likes of Alabama and Miami for a first-round matchup against No. 6 Penn State. Penn State also dropped their conference title game, falling in the Big Ten championship to top-seeded Oregon. Drew Allar, fresh off of a commitment to return to the school for his senior year, will look to build on a season that saw him throw for 2,894 yards and 21 touchdowns. Allar leads a high-powered Nittany Lions offence featuring Tyler Warren, Trey Wallace, and Nick Singleton. Warren, a projected first-round pick in this year’s NFL draft, won the John Mackey Award as the best tight end in college football, while also earning first-team All-American honour
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