Penn State Football: 3 takeaways from Week 7 bye

Penn State football’s 2017 season just keeps getting better, even during weeks where they don’t play a game. Here are three takeaways from PSU’s bye week.

Bye weeks stink. They just stink, I don’t know what else to tell you.

Granted, it’s nice for the players, coaches and staff to take a week off to recharge and recover from the first half of the college football season, it’s simply no fun for us fans.

Tails are not gated, wings are not buffalo-ed and seemingly millions of jerseys stay trapped uselessly in closets across the nation, patiently awaiting a chance to finally return to the light of day on the subsequent weekend.

It’s just tragic.

And while it’s no fun for college football fans, it’s also not much fun for college football writers, like myself, who build their weeks around writing about their favorite teams.

But fear not, Nittany Lions fans, even without a game in Week 7 there were still plenty of important Nittany Lions-related stories that could have serious ramifications on the team’s cinderella season going forward.

Penn State continues to look like one of the best teams in the nation, even without playing, and are watching their compatriots across the top of the AP Top 25 poll fall like flies week after week, with only Alabama remaining in the top-five with any consistency.

Now, sitting pretty as the No. 2 team in the nation, Penn State should be considered a favorite to make the College Football Playoff for the first time in the program’s history, and even have the firepower needed to make a serious run at their first national title since 1986.

Here are three major takeaways from the Nittany Lions’ bye week, and how they could affect the team going forward.