Penn State·Big Ten

2019 — The Ten-Win Year

Penn State's 2019 season (11-2) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 11-2
Final result 11-win season Won the Cotton Bowl Classic
AP final #13 post-bowls
SP+ +10.6 last-week
Era The Franklin Era
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Idaho 79-7 W vs Buffalo 45-13 W vs Pittsb 17-10 W @ Maryland 59-0 W vs Purdue 35-7 W @ Iowa 17-12 W vs Michigan 28-21 W @ Mich St 28-7 L @ Minnes 26-31 W vs Indiana 34-27 L @ Ohio St 17-28 W vs Rutgers 27-6 W vs Memphis 53-39 Bowl

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2019.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2019 season's largest margin: Penn State 79, Idaho 7. A 72-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Penn State 17, Ohio State 28. A 11-point margin the season is remembered by.

The postseason

The season's last act: Penn State beat Memphis 53-39 in the postseason.

"We Are."
— Penn State fanbase voice · 2019· synthesized
What it meant

2019 is a middle chapter for Penn State — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.