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Penn State 13, Ohio State 6. Well, that was more like your grandfather's Big Ten than the electric light show promised by athletic quarterbacks operating out of the spread. Penn State will take it. Up until Pat Devlin lunged for the only touchdown with about six minutes to play, Ohio State would have taken it, too. A tough road win is a tough road win, and PSU comes out the other side looking even feistier on defense, with only Iowa, Indiana and Michigan State between it and 12-0.

As Brent Musburger pointed out late in the the game, there were two big goose eggs for the Lions: zero penalties and, more importantly, zero turnovers. Ohio State's best starting position of the night was its own 39, and when the ball squirted out of Terrelle Pryor's hands on third and short at midfield, with the Buckeyes up 6-3 and already in clock-killing mode, Penn State took advantage of the only major mistake and the only good field position of the night to drive 38 yards for the winning touchdown -- and a good chunk of that came via another OSU mistake, a pass interference penalty for the full 15 yards. Between Wells and Terrelle Pryor, the only Buckeyes to log carries, Ohio State averaged two yards per carry with a long run of nine. You know, disciplined defense, taking care of the ball, punting, all that rot. Even in HD, sometimes it works.

I may be less bothered by the Lions' "style points," or lack thereof, for the same reason it doesn't bother me that Alabama didn't blow Kentucky or Ole Miss out of the stadium. For one, Penn State earned plenty of style points in crushing Oregon State and Wisconsin and convincingly beating Illinois and Michigan. The tempo of tonight's game didn't lend itself to big scoring -- Pryor clearly was not going to hurt Penn State downfield, even when he had guys open, and there was no reason to give him a chance by making a mistake against the Buckeye defense -- and the team that can hang in a slugfest and let its defense carry it through a big game on the road should be able to hang tough with anyone. That's the theory, at least, and assuming either Texas or Alabama has a loss in front of it down the stretches, we're only three more Lion wins (and probably a few creepy, quasi-eulogies to poor Joe Paterno) from testing it with a championship on the line.