Not sure if this is a positive (I really didn't see many), but one thing is PSU is probably a lot better than people thought they would be. Hawks played like *CRAP*, but I think a lot of the frustration stems from the fact that HN (like most fanbases) chalked PSU up as an easy W on this year's schedule about 15 mins after the Sandusky thing broke...PSU is simply not obliging us by living down to the entire country's expectations. I think that makes it tougher to swallow/seem even worse than it is (I'm guessing we aren't the only fanbase that will be "stunned" when an erstwhile left-for-dead PSU shows up and puts the hurt on).
We still played like garbage, but it's not as though we lost to Coe College (sans Fred Jackson) or something, that's all I'm sayin'.