TEAM
- Penn State leads 5-0 in the all-time series, including 3-0 in regular season matchups and 2-0 in road matchups.
- Since 2014, Penn State is 60-2 when leading by 10+ points at halftime.
OFFENSE
Team
- Penn State closed out the game with a 14-play, 70-yard drive covering the final 7:40 of the game.
- Penn State tallied 303 yards in the first half (193 passing, 110 rushing). PSU last went over 300 yards in a half against Buffalo (305, first half) and last did so against a Big Ten opponent against Rutgers in 2025 (311, first half).
- The Nittany Lions recorded eight plays of 20+ yards (five passing, three rushing), moving their season total to 42 plays of 20+ yards this season (34 passing, 8 rushing).
- Penn State tallied 414 total yards, marking the 88th time since 2014 going over 400 total yards in a game.
- The Nittany Lions threw for 240 yards. Since 2014, PSU has passed for 200+ yards on 106 occasions.
- QB Rocco Becht completed 16-of-27 passes for 240 yards and two touchdowns.
- He connected on a 24-yard touchdown pass to Zay Robinson early in the second quarter.
- Becht hit Chase Sowell for a 45-yard touchdown on the next drive. Becht now has 79 career touchdown passes and 15 touchdown passes this season.
- Eleven of Becht’s 15 touchdown passes this season are 15+ yards.
- The redshirt senior posted his 25th career game with multiple touchdown passes and his 36th career game with 200+ passing yards.
- Becht has led his teams to 31 career wins, most among current FBS quarterbacks.
- On the day, Becht competed five passes of 20+ yards.
- RB Carson Hansen rushed for 119 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries, good for 8.5 yards per carry.
- Hansen scored on a 12-yard rush to conclude PSU’s opening drive. It was his 25th career rushing touchdown and his sixth rushing touchdown this season.
- He has scored a rushing touchdown in five-straight games, the first Nittany Lion to do so since Kaytron Allen’s eight-straight games with a rushing touchdown in 2025.
- Hansen had a 20-yard rush on PSU’s opening drive and a 36-yard run on PSU’s final drive. He owns 17 career 20+ yard rushes.
- He posted his seventh career 100-yard rushing game and his first as a Nittany Lion.
- RB Cam Wallace scored on a 46-yard touchdown rush in the second quarter. It was his fifth career rushing touchdown and his fourth this season. It was also Wallace’s third career rush of 20+ yards.
- He finished the game with 56 yards on seven carries, good for eight yards per carry.
- WR Chase Sowell caught four passes for 125 yards and one touchdown.
- Sowell hauled in a 45-yard touchdown in the second quarter. It was his 10th career receiving touchdown and his fourth this season.
- He made a 32-yard grab in the first quarter and a one-handed 38-yard catch in the third quarter.
- Sowell owns 33 career catches of 20+ yards (12 this season) and has nine catches of 25+ yards this season.
- All four of Sowell’s catches gained first downs on Saturday. On the season, 29 of his 38 catches have gained first downs (76 percent).
- Sowell posted his seventh career 100-yard receiving game and his second this season.
- WR Zay Robinson hauled in a 24-yard touchdown in the second quarter. It was his second career receiving touchdown and third career 20+ yard reception.
- TE Benjamin Brahmer snagged a 24-yard catch in the second quarter. He has 23 career catches of 20+ yards.
- Brahmer has a catch in each of his last 21 games.
DEFENSE
Team
- Penn State CB Ibn McDaniels picked off a pass in the fourth quarter. It was Penn State’s 14th takeaway this season (10 interceptions, four fumbles).
- Since 2022, Penn State has forced 103 takeaways (62 interceptions, 41 fumbles).
- PSU limited Washington to 174 passing yards. Since 2014, Penn State has allowed under 200 passing yards 97 times.
- DT Ty Blanding assisted on a sack in the second quarter. He owns 4.5 career tackles for loss and 0.5 career sacks.
- CB Audavion Collins broke up his 10th pass this season and 14th of his career.
- LB Kooper Ebel assisted on a tackle for loss in the first quarter. He owns 17 career tackles for loss.
- His final tackle of the day marked his 200th career stop.
- DE Yvan Kemajou assisted on a sack in the second quarter. He has nine career tackles for loss and four career sacks.
- CB Ibn McDaniels caught his first career interception in the fourth quarter.
- DE Alexander McPherson secured a solo tackle for loss in the third quarter. He has 2.5 career tackles for loss.
- S Jamison Patton notched four tackles in the first half and finished the day with six stops.
- LB Tony Rojas tallied five tackles in the first half and finished the game with eight stops.
- Rojas registered a solo tackle for loss in the second quarter. He owns 25.5 career tackles for loss and 11.5 tackles for loss this season.
- Since 1956, he is now one of seven Big Ten linebackers to post 24+ tackles for loss and 6+ interceptions in their career.
- CB Josiah Zayas posted a career-high four tackles in the game.
- He assisted on a tackle for loss in the first quarter. He now has three career tackles for loss.
SPECIAL TEAMS
- K Ryan Barker nailed all four extra-point attempts on Saturday.
- He is now 121-of-123 on career extra point attempts. He moved into sole possession of sixth all-time at Penn State in career extra points made.
- P Nathan Tiyce averaged 40.0 yards on four punts.
- Tiyce landed a 43-yard punt at the Washington 4 in the second quarter. Tiyce has 20 career punts inside the 20 and 14 inside the 10.