TEAM
- Penn State is 17-18-1 in the all-time series against Michigan State.
- The Nittany Lions are 6-11 in road games against Michigan State.
OFFENSE
Team
- With two touchdown passes to WR Jahan Dotson, QB Sean Clifford has connected with Dotson for 23 career touchdowns, the most in school history for a quarterback-receiver duo and the most of any FBS quarterback-receiver duo.
Sean Clifford
- QB Sean Clifford finished 23-for-34 passing for 313 yards and three touchdowns, his seventh career 300-yard passing game, now sitting third all-time at Penn State.
- Clifford has four 300-yard passing games this season, tied for second in a single season at PSU with Matt McGloin (2012), Christian Hackenberg (2013 and 2014) and Trace McSorley (2017).
- His 19 career 200-yard passing games moved him past Matt McGloin (2009-12) for third in school history.
- Clifford has now thrown for 2,912 yards this season, moving into seventh at Penn State.
- The redshirt senior has 20 touchdown passes this season, moving into a tie for ninth at Penn State with Christian Hackenberg (2013).
- Clifford has 247 season completions, moving into fourth all-time at PSU for completions in a single season.
- His 396 attempts this season now puts him in fourth in school history.
- Clifford owns 8,495 career total yards (7,644 pass, 851 rush), moving him past Christian Hackenberg (8215; 8457 pass, -242 rush) for second all-time at Penn State.
- He has 3,029 total yards on the season (2,912 pass, 117 rush), moving into eighth all-time at Penn State.
- With two passing touchdowns in the first half, Clifford has 16 multi-touchdown halves in his career.
- Clifford has 17 multi-touchdown games in his career, with five coming this season.
Keyvone Lee
- RB Keyvone Lee finished the game with 79 yards on 15 carries with a long rush of 33 yards.
- He has rushed for 50-plus yards in three of the last four games.
Jahan Dotson
- WR Jahan Dotson got Penn State on the board late in the first quarter when he connected with QB Sean Clifford on a 27-yard touchdown.
- The duo would connect again on Penn State's next drive when Dotson hauled in a 30-yard touchdown.
- Dotson moved into second place on Penn State's single-season receiving yards list passing Bobby Engram (1,084; 1995) and Chris Godwin (1,101; 2015) today. Dotson has 1,182 receiving yards this year.
- Dotson now has 25 career receiving touchdowns tying Kenny Jackson (1980-83) for 2nd all-time at Penn State.
- His 12 season receiving touchdowns passed Joe Jurevicius (10 in 1997), Bobby Engram (11 in 1995) Allen Robinson (11 in 2012) and Chris Godwin (11 in 2016) for second all-time at PSU.
- The senior has 183 career receptions and passed Allen Robinson (2011-13) and Deon Butler (2005-08) to move into second all-time at Penn State.
- He has 91 receptions on the season and trails Allen Robinson (97 in 2013) by six for the single-season record.
- Dotson turned in his 11th career 100-yard receiving game to move into sole possession of second place on Penn State's all-time list. He was tied with Allen Robinson (10; 2011-13) entering the game.
- He has five 100-yard receiving games this year to move into fourth place on Penn State's season chart with OJ McDuffie, 1992; Freddie Scott, 1994; Joe Jurevicius, 1996; Bryant Johnson, 2001; and Chris Godwin, 2015.
- Dotson has six career multi-touchdown reception games, including three this season.
- Doston has five career games with 100+ receiving yards, 2+ rec TDs
- Dotson has caught at least one pass in 41-straight games, dating back to Indiana game (10/20/18).
- Dotson has at least one 20-yard reception in 28 career games.
Parker Washington
- WR Parker Washington finished the game with four receptions, 60 yards and a 15-yard touchdown reception late in the fourth quarter.
- Washington has caught a pass in all 21 games of his career.
- He now has 1,211 career receiving yards, passing Pat Freiermuth (2018-20) and Saquon Barkley (2015-17) for 26th and 25th respectively all-time at Penn State.
- The sophomore now has 57 receptions this season, tied for ninth at Penn State with Mike Gesicki in 2017.
- He owns 93 career receptions, tied for 20th with Freddie Scott (1993-95).
DEFENSE
Team
- Dating back to the Nebraska game in 2020, Penn State has forced a turnover in 18-straight games (26 total, 17 interceptions, 9 fumbles).
- The Penn State defense had its third interception returned for a touchdown when Daequan Hardy returned a pick 17 yards for a score. The three pick-sixes are the most since 2003 (3) and marks the eighth time with three or more interception returns for a TD in a season.
Arnold Ebiketie
- DE Arnold Ebiketie has at least one tackle for loss in eight-straight games.
- He now has 17.0 tackles for loss this season.
Ji'Ayir Brown
- S Ji'Ayir Brown led Penn State with 10 tackles, marking his second career double-digit tackle game.
Daequan Hardy
- CB Daequan Hardy grabbed his second career interception and returned it 17 yards for a touchdown. The pick is also his second of the season with the first coming against Ball State.
- Hardy owns nine passes defended this season.
SPECIAL TEAMS
Jordan Stout
- With a 52-yard punt in the first quarter, P/K Jordan Stout now has 28 career 50+ yard punts, including 25 this season.
- Twenty-five of Stout's 62 punts this season have been 50 yards or longer.
- Stout has 42 career punts inside the 20, including 34 this season (18 inside the 10, 6 inside the 5)
- Stout has touchbacks on 56-of-62 kickoffs (90 percent) this season.