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One win won’t fix all of Penn State’s problems but it can certainly make Michigan’s worse, and in a season the Nittany Lions have long wanted to put in the rearview mirror, taking down the Wolverines in the process isn’t a bad way to go.

This game usually means a lot more than it does this weekend, but wins are wins and losses are losses. So here are five things to watch as Penn State and Michigan take the field at noon on Saturday.

While there are a lot of reasons why Penn State’s season has started 0-5 with no particular end in sight, the Nittany Lions’ running back room going from one of the deepest in the nation to one of the most depleted certainly hasn’t helped the cause any.

Four more Penn State student-athletes have tested positive for the coronavirus, Penn State Athletics announced in its weekly testing report Wednesday.

James Franklin knows that for as much as everyone would like to keep 2020 in a bubble and send it to a very far away place, that the ramifications of the Nittany Lions’ 0-5 start will last far longer than anyone might like.

Despite starting the season 0-5 and seemingly destined for more losses, Penn State coach James Franklin isn’t worried about any potential that he has lost his team. Or rather, that it has given up on itself following its latest defeat this past weekend against Iowa.