Blue and White Brothers

Coming out of a bye week with no Penn State football, Tom & Andy take the opportunity to look across the landscape of college football halfway through the 2021 season. They also take stock of Penn State at the midpoint and look ahead to the Illinois game with starting QB Sean Clifford's injury status unknown.

It started great but ended in disaster. Tom & Andy commiserate over Penn State's loss to Iowa and discuss the injury to starting QB Sean Clifford. In addition to analyzing the game, they also ponder the implications of Penn State's first loss as the team heads into the bye week and conclude by delving into the mailbag.

After a vindicating victory over Indiana, Penn State turns its attention to the biggest matchup of the season, a top-5 clash with Big Ten West foe Iowa. Tom & Andy discuss the highs and lows of the win over the Hoosiers and the promise and peril of their imminent face-off with the Hawkeyes.

Tom and Andy recap a businesslike, if uninspired, win against Villanova and look ahead to their first chance to avenge last year's opening-game loss to Indiana. Coming off a disappointing 2-2 start, this still-dangerous Indiana team will look to prove last year was not a fluke, while Penn State looks to shake off last year's loss and show that their top-4 ranking is well-deserved.

It was a glorious evening in Happy Valley as Tom & Andy recount the sights and sounds of a White Out win, as the Nittany Lions prevailed over the visiting Auburn Tigers. As they revel in the team's success, they simultaneously manage to avoid spending too much time nit-picking the abysmal officiating. The close by taking stock of the team a quarter of the way through the season, and reserve a...

It's whiteout week! With #22 Auburn coming to town for a major cross-conference matchup, the brothers all kinds of excited, especially after Penn State took care of defending MAC-champ Ball State on Saturday. Tom and Andy break down the Ball State game and dig into what is sure to be an exciting game against the one of college football's blue-bloods. Will Auburn turn out to be a paper tiger, or wi...

What a difference a year makes! In a situation that mirrored of last year's opening game, Penn State flipped the script and came away from a hard-fought first game with a huge road win against a B1G West behemoth Wisconsin. Tom & Andy celebrate the good times as they break down the win, discuss room for improvement, and take a look at their next opponent, a sneaky-good defending MAC champion B...

In this final loo at the NIttany Lions before the season gets underway, Tom and Andy take a look at the challenging 2021 schedule, dig into their upcoming top-25 matchup against an always-tough Wisconsin squad, and give their season predictions. Want to hear about Tom's other life as The Real Hiking Viking? Check out his guest appearance on The Obligatory PSU Podcast , where he goes in-depth about...

Tom and Andy discuss how this year's defense and special teams are shaping up after a disappointing 2020 campaign for both squads. Can they bounce back from last year's sub-par performance? They also debut a new "Mailbag" segment and get into the latest on the rumored B1G/ACC/PAC-12 alliance. It's all in a day's work for the Blue & White Brothers.

What will the offense of new OC Mike Yursich look like? Will this be Franklin's best line ever? Can Sean Clifford bounce back from a dismal 2020 season? All this plus updates on the CFP landscape, random Chris Farley impressions, and more.

Tom and Andy are back for the upcoming 2021 Penn State football season! In this first episode they review all the offseason action and discuss how they think the team will fare this year. As always, you'll get a heavy dose of unedited brotherly banter, complete with their unique mix of self-deprecating humor and incisive analysis. 0:00-We're Back! 5:37-Last Look at 2020 12:48-Off-Season Developmen...

This unprecedented season proved to be quite a way to begin a podcast on Penn State Football! Now, here at the end of the beginning, Tom and Andy get the lay of the land as they reflect on the season that was and offer some thoughts on what lies ahead.

Tom and Andy recap what turns out to be Penn State's final game of the season, a dominant 56-21 victory over Illinois. They also touch on the team's decision to forego a bowl game, and consider how this win was a fitting end to the struggles of the 2020 season.

After a tumultuous season, Penn State has finally made it to what the Big Ten originally dubbed "Champions Week" but which has turned out to be anything but, as they discuss at length in this week's Gathmania Gripe. Regardless, Tom & Andy eventually get to talking the team's final opponent of the Big Ten slate, a struggling Illinois squad that is fresh off the firing of head coach Lovie Smith....

Tom and Andy revel in the return of the Land Grant glory with a 39-24 victory over the Michigan State Spartans. Although it's the regular-season finale, it turned out to be a game of firsts with the unusual 2020 football season drawing to a close.

With the final weekend of the regular season approaching, Tom and Andy take a look at the Michigan State game with the Land Grant Trophy on the line. They also survey the wider Big Ten landscape and debut a new segment, "Rick's Picks," featuring the show's first ever guest.

Coming off the second win of the season, Tom & Andy review a dominant performance against an improved Rutgers team. Feeling mostly good about a team that is finally starting to play well, they leave room to discuss their ongoing gripes, including some frustrations with a two-QB "system" that gave Will Levis 17 carries on a wet and windy day in Piscataway.

Still energized after the Michigan win, Tom and Andy do a deep dive on a rejuvenated and surprisingly competitive Rutgers team. A game that most years would been considered a gimme is shaping up to be an important border battle. The boys also offer their congratulations to PSU alum Trace McSorely, who threw a TD in his first NFL regular season game Wednesday. They end with a brilliant idea for a n...

It finally happened—Penn State got their first victory of the Blue and White Brothers era! Tom and Andy share in the emotions coming off the team's first victory, then break down the game and talk about what this win might mean going forward. But whatever the next few weeks hold, for now they're 1-0! Show Notes: - Head Coach James Franklin Michigan Post Game Press Conference https://youtu.be/bP_mW...

It's Thanksgiving week, and Tom and Andy talk about what they're looking forward to with Thanksgiving Dinner. Oh, and they also discuss the upcoming Michigan game and whether there's anything to look forward to on Saturday. Show Notes: - Penn State’s James Franklin says his goal of being first African-American coach to win a national title is important to himhttps://www.inquirer.com/college-sports...

Tom and Andy navigate the titanic disaster that is this current Penn State Football season—which began with such great expectations. Analogies abound in this episode as the boys discover the art of beating a dead horse in hopes of making sense of this historic collapse that we're witnessing before our very eyes. 

Now midway through the season, Tom and Andy talk about Penn State's upcoming battle against Iowa, a perennially tough matchup that presents an opportunity for a season-defining turnaround. Tom pours himself a tall bourbon to get him through the episode as the boys don’t even offer up a score prediction at the end. Show Notes: - Battle of Midway movies: Midway (2019) with Woody Harrelson, Dennis Qu...

Tom and Andy recap PSU-Nebraska, a game with some bright spots but one that ultimately puts them at 0-4 and feeding at the bottom of the Big Ten standings. They discuss some of the big developments in the game, including the benching of Sean Clifford in favor of Will Levis, and the continuation of defensive breakdowns. They also analyze some of the team's underlying issues and what needs to change...

Tom and Andy try and shake off Penn State's disappointing 0-3 start and share some questions and insights about what we expect (and hope) to see Saturday against Nebraska. They also share some midweek news updates about Coach Franklin, the team depth chart, and Journey Brown. Show Notes: - James Franklin discussing being apart from his family and how it has effected him: https://www.post-gazette.c...

What the heck was that? Tom & Andy try to make sense of Penn State's embarrassing 35-19 loss to Maryland, a game that wasn't nearly as close as the score indicates. Instead of picking the game apart, they go deep and try and figure out what is going on with this team and how they can possibly move forward from here. Show Notes: - mirth: /mərTH/ noun amusement, especially as expressed in laught...