Many of the positions and the players you already know. That’s what happens when a team returns 19 players who started a game last season and all of its specialists.

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a five-part, ‘Where Are They Now?’ series on players from each of Joe Paterno’s five decades as Penn State’s football coach. Today’s story profiles Brad Scioli, a defensive end who played on the Nittany Lions’ 1994 Big Ten title team and captained the 1998 team.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Every day as Stefen Wisniewski walks through the Lasch Building on campus, he walks by a wall of photos featuring standouts of Penn State football past.

UNIVERSITY PARK — When asked about last season, Tony Davis' voice suddenly grows grim.

POLL: Predict the Nittany Lions' Big Ten finish

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Separated by 800 miles and styles that are about as far apart, Florida State's Bobby Bowden and Penn State's Joe Paterno are stuck together by winning and retirement rumors.

BELLEFONTE — A former Penn State wide receiver who police said stormed into a dining hall with a knife to confront a teammate and had to be restrained by coaches has entered a guilty plea that will not require jail time.

It's football fantasy camp time again at Penn State.

For several years now — as long or longer than some of Penn State’s current football recruits have been alive — rival schools have put the thought in prospects’ minds, their tone suggesting it was more common sense than speculation.

The Penn State football team received an oral commitment from its fifth defensive back recruit this spring when Stephon Morris announced his decision to the Nittany Lion coaching staff Saturday.

The Penn State football team added two offensive lineman recruits to the fold this week, bringing its number of commitments up to eight.

The same passing combination that thrilled so many Penn State football fans and brought the Nittany Lions a national championship in 1982 hooked up again recently.

Shortly after the respective fields for last season’s NCAA Tournament and NIT had been selected last March, The Gazelle Group, a sports representation and consultation company that runs several early-season tournaments, did an informal survey of 16 teams left on the outside of both bubbles.

INDIANAPOLIS — The slate may have been swept clean for the Penn State women’s basketball team heading into the Big Ten Tournament, but once Thursday’s opening round game was played the story remained the same.

SAN ANTONIO — They were, as they almost always have been these last few years at Penn State, the question marks on a team that thought it had answers almost everywhere else.

SAN ANTONIO — Texas A&M quarterback Stephen McGee plans to do two things after the Aggies wrap up their 2007 season by playing Penn State in Saturday’s Alamo Bowl.

SAN ANTONIO — The statistics, as Texas A&M offensive coordinator Les Koenning quickly pointed out Thursday, are heavily in favor of Penn State.

UNIVERSITY PARK — A win on Senior Day, for obvious reasons, means a lot to each group of Penn State seniors. It’s the last time they will ride to the stadium in the blue buses, the last time they will run through the tunnel and the last time they will play before 100-some-odd thousand home fans.

UNIVERSITY PARK — On good days, Purdue convinces 65,000 fans to enter Ross Ade Stadium. So, naturally, coach Joe Tiller entered Saturday concerned whether his team could handle the rigors of playing before more than 108,000 at Beaver Stadium.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State's slumbering offense woke up against Iowa.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Joe Paterno sat before the microphones and tape recorders and fought to keep the frown from his face. He had wondered during this past week, and possibly for the whole season, what sort of mettle his Penn State team possessed, and he had figured Saturday’s visit to Michigan Stadium would provide some answers.

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Nittany Lions have ‘to keep heads up’

Big Ten’s “best” teams stink up Big House

After a sluggish start, a couple lucky bounces propelled No. 12 Penn State to another win.