It was a testament to Baltimore's resilience that John Harbaugh's team wound up taking the final victory lap of the season, because the Ravens' 106 regular season record made them the first AFC champion to win fewer than 11 games in a nonstrike season since the advent of the NFL's 16game regular season in 1978. But on the other hand, you can't say we shouldn't have seen this coming at some point, because Baltimore is the only team to make the playoffs in each of the past five seasons, and the Ravens even won at least one game in all of those postseasons. There's no fluke to Baltimore's triumph..Dantonio's two recruiting classes must produce more new faces on the field this year. New faces better than the players they will replace. In its two biggest games of the year last season State and Penn State State did not show well and paid for it when the Preseason Coaches' Top 25 Poll found them absent..

The players receive the 16 sheets Saturday mornings before the walkthrough.