Penn State opens Big Ten play Saturday against No. 19 Illinois at 7:30 p.m. at Beaver Stadium. A game with two ranked opponents isn’t what many of us, myself included, expected, but it’ll be a test for a Penn State team that looks like a College Football Playoff contender.

On a day that Penn State’s offense produced 718 total yards, a single-game record, the big plays were numerous against Kent State. PennLive began tracking the Nittany Lions’ big plays, or explosive plays,

Burns was just on the receiving end of a 56-0 blowout loss at the hands of Penn State — his team’s second straight lopsided defeat after it lost to Tennessee on the road last week, 71-0. So he knew what he was getting into in Happy Valley.

It played out how it should have against Bowling Green. Penn State pulled most of its starters before the end of the third quarter and played 14 freshmen in a 56-0 smothering of Kent State on Saturday.