... and burned, the Nittany Lions went back to basics and on the road for the first time this year to scenic Champaign, Ill. The offense that sputtered and died a week earlier in Happy Valley at the hands of Iowa packed something old in their equipment truck this past Saturday.

A running game.

The Lions and their Spread HD offense managed to keep everyone off-balance through most of last season, and did enough to get through the first three meaningless home games of 2009 before imploding on national TV. What they needed was some balance. What they needed was a running game.

That running game came from virtually nowhere in the second half to leave tread marks all over the Illinois defense, in the process giving everyone else on Penn...

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