STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State players have watched Ashton Jeanty make opponents look silly all season. They don't want to be the next defenders Boise State’s star posterizes with jukes, spin moves, stiff arms and heavy shoulders. But they also know that slowing down Jeanty, who finished second in Heisman Trophy voting , will be their toughest task yet when the two teams meet in the College Football Playoff quarterfinal Fiesta Bowl on Dec. 31. “In any other year, I think the guy wins the Heisman,” Penn State coach James Franklin said. “You could make the argument that he should have won it this year. He is hard to tackle. He is compact, 5-(foot)-10, he has the ability to run away from you. He has the ability to make you miss.” Jeanty led the nation with 2,497 rushing yards on 344 carries this season. He scored more touchdowns (30) than any player since Najee Harris scored 30 times with Alabama in 2020. Additionally, Jeanty’s yards after contact (1,889) exceed every FBS running backs’ rushing total since Oklahoma State’s Chuba Hubbard led the NCAA with 2,094 total rushing yards in 2019. Jeanty also forced an NCAA-record 143 missed tackles this season. The junior did it all behind an offensive line that has been forced to shuffle its parts in the wake of numerous injuries. Only left tackle Kage Casey and left guard Ben Dooley have started every game up front for the Broncos this season. “He’s a beast in terms of his production on the field, but then also his durability,” Franklin said. “There’s not too many people that are able to get clean shots on him. All of it is super impressive. But I think the stat that I mentioned earlier, the most impressive stat is the yards after contact.” This could be Jeanty’s biggest challenge to date, too. Although he’s helped Boise State churn out 250 rushing yards per game, good for fifth among FBS programs, the Nittany Lions are well stocked to defend the run. Story continues below video Their defense is seventh nationally allowing just 100 rushing yards per game and has tightened up down the stretch. In its last six games, Penn State is allowing just 2.7 yards per rush and has only given up three rushing touchdowns, two coming in the Big Ten championship game against No. 1 Oregon. “They’ve had our backs throughout the whole year,” Penn State quarterback Drew Allar said. “They have made me a lot better throughout the year, just going against the best defense in America and just glad I got to go against them every day in practice and not against them out on the field in a game setting.” In the opening round of the CFP, Penn State held SMU to just 58 rushing yards on 36 carries. Meanwhile, the Nittany Lions notched 11 of their 50 tackles for loss over the last six games against the Mustangs. Most of those came from a defensive line that regularly rotates run-stuffing tackles Zane Durant, Dvon J-Thomas and Coziah Izzard between dynamic ends Abdul Carter and Dani Dennis-Sutton. Carter alone has 21 1/2 of his team’s 102 stops behind the line of scrimmage this year. He's hoping to add a few against Jeanty and stay off the star back's own long-running highlight reel. “I’m living in my dreams,” Carter said. “I’m having the most fun I ever had playing football and I’ve been playing since I was 8 years old. I’m very blessed. I’m just very humbled to have this opportunity. I just want to keep taking advantage of all the opportunities that I have.” Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-footballIcons of Influence: Africa’s 20 richest billionaires shaping wealth, luxury and impactSouth Africa's CIS investor confidence rebounds in Q3 2024
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A BELOVED department chain is set to shut the doors on one of its "huge" branches in just a few days time. The legendary retail giant has operated the popular store for over 25 years in a busy shopping centre but the owners have decided it is time to close it down for good. House of Fraser is pulling down the shutters on their Bluewater branch on November 27. The department store has been operated out of large unit which occupies two floors in the Greenhithe shopping centre for years. Despite shoppers describing the closure as an "end of an era" they have been given a goodbye gift in the form of a 20 per cent discount on in store buys until it officially shuts. Next is strongly tipped to take over the unit once House of Fraser closes their store for good. read more in shops closing House of Fraser's has decided to keep its Darlington branch open however amid questions over its future earlier this year. A spokesperson from the retailer said: “We’re pleased to confirm that House of Fraser Darlington will remain open and is operating business as usual. "We’re looking forward to continuing to welcome our valued customers to this location.” It comes after a number of the department store's shops have dramatically closed down in recent years. Most read in Money House of Fraser was saved from collapse by billionaire businessman Mike Ashley back in 2018 . But while the deal saved the chain's 59 stores and 17,000 workers who were facing the axe many more stores have closed in recent years. Today just 28 department stores remain with the closure of the Bluewater branch dropping this number even further. Over the past few months, the chain has called time on several of its shops. One in Cabot Circus shopping centre, Bristol , was gone in August Birmingham , Cardiff and Guildford all saw closing down signs plastered across the windows. Shoppers were rushing to the sales as the branches prepared to shut for good . Last autumn, Frasers Group chief executive, Michael Murray, described House of Fraser as a "broken business " and said it is likely to "diminish". Mr Murray added that the group's strategy was to break away from the traditional operating model of operating department stores. He told The Telegraph : "We’ve completely changed the operating model. "It was mostly concession, the stores were way too big, and they were under-invested. "Our future vision is that House of Fraser will diminish and Frasers will grow." What else is happening to Frasers Group chains? It's not just House of Fraser shops shutting, other Frasers Group chains have been decreasing their store numbers too. Frasers announced plans to close down a popular fashion chain USC's branch in Stoke-on-Trent this summer . The firm also shut a USC branch in Stockton-on-Tees in December last year after launching a closing down sale. And House of Fraser , also owned by Frasers Group, closed its store in Carlisle in May . A Flannels site - also under Frasers - in Bolton , closed for the final time in the new year. And MatchesFashion - an online fashion website - fell into administration in March this year before shutting down forever in June. READ MORE SUN STORIES But it has opened new stores across the UK as well. Shoppers have been visiting their "new concept" stores which sell brands from across the group including Sports Direct and Jack Wills. EMPTY shops have become an eyesore on many British high streets and are often symbolic of a town centre’s decline. The Sun's business editor Ashley Armstrong explains why so many retailers are shutting their doors. In many cases, retailers are shutting stores because they are no longer the money-makers they once were because of the rise of online shopping. Falling store sales and rising staff costs have made it even more expensive for shops to stay open. In some cases, retailers are shutting a store and reopening a new shop at the other end of a high street to reflect how a town has changed. The problem is that when a big shop closes, footfall falls across the local high street, which puts more shops at risk of closing. Retail parks are increasingly popular with shoppers, who want to be able to get easy, free parking at a time when local councils have hiked parking charges in towns. Many retailers including Next and Marks & Spencer have been shutting stores on the high street and taking bigger stores in better-performing retail parks instead. Boss Stuart Machin recently said that when it relocated a tired store in Chesterfield to a new big store in a retail park half a mile away, its sales in the area rose by 103 per cent. In some cases, stores have been shut when a retailer goes bust, as in the case of Wilko, Debenhams Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and Paperchase to name a few. 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