{"id":56065,"date":"2025-11-30T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/56065\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:00:08","slug":"rutgers-falls-to-penn-state-after-athan-kaliakmanis-brutal-fumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/56065\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutgers falls to Penn State after Athan Kaliakmanis&#8217; brutal fumble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PISCATAWAY, N.J. \u2014 Kaytron Allen ran for a career-high 226 yards and a touchdown as Penn State beat Rutgers 40-36 for the 18th straight time to become bowl eligible after a tumultuous season.<\/p>\n<p>The Nittany Lions (6-6, 3-6 Big Ten) retook the lead for good when linebacker Amare Campbell raced 61-yards with a fumble with 7:27 to play. Rutgers quarterback Athan Kaliakmanis lost the ball without being touched.<\/p>\n<p>Rutgers (5-7, 2-7 Big Ten) had moved ahead 36-33 early in the fourth quarter on a 46-yard TD pass from Kaliakmanis to Antwan Raymond.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37801083\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rutgers-scarlet-knights-quarterback-athan-116415679.jpg\" alt=\"Rutgers quarterback Athan Kaliakmanis reacting to a play with his hands on his helmet.\" class=\"wp-image-37801083\"  \/>Athan Kaliakmanis puts his hands to his helmet in frustration after losing a fumble that was returned for a touchdown during Rutgers\u2019 40-36 home loss to Penn State on Nov. 29, 2025.  Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Raymond ran for 189 yards and Kaliakmanis passed for 338 yards and three TDs.<\/p>\n<p>There were four lead changes in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Penn State hasn\u2019t missed a bowl game since 2020 when the non-College Football Playoff bowl games were canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>After losing to Notre Dame in the semifinals of the CFP last season, the expectations for Penn State were high.<\/p>\n<p>The Nittany Lions began the season ranked No. 2 and were led by quarterback Drew Allar, who was headed for a Heisman-caliber season before a season-ending leg injury in Week Six against Northwestern.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37801084\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tackled-penn-state-linebacker-amare-116416160.jpg\" alt=\"Rutgers quarterback Athan Kaliakmanis (16) is tackled by Penn State linebacker Amare Campbell (24).\" class=\"wp-image-37801084\"  \/>Athan Kaliakmanis gets tackled during Rutgers\u2019 loss to Penn State. AP<\/p>\n<p>The following day coach James Franklin was fired after Penn State lost its first three Big Ten games, including back-to-back games in which the Nittany Lions were favored by 20-plus points.<\/p>\n<p>Penn State would lose five straight before turning its season around by winning its last three games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PISCATAWAY, N.J. \u2014 Kaytron Allen ran for a career-high 226 yards and a touchdown as Penn State beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11590,9,11,10,30446,30447,319],"class_list":["post-56065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-college-football","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-penn-state-nittany-lions","tag-rutgers-scarlet-knights","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}