STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Trace McSorley threw for 209 yards and two touchdowns, and Saquon Barkley ran for another score to lift Penn State over Kent State 33-13 in the season openers for both teams on Saturday.Barkley finished with 105 yards rushing, and Tyler Davis chipped in two field goals for the Nittany Lions. A 29-yard field goal in the second quarter gave Penn State the lead for good.Were happy with the win, Penn State coach James Franklin said. I think we couldve been cleaner, it wasnt as clean as we wouldve liked it to be.Amani Oruwariye returned an interception for a score in the third quarter, and Mike Gesicki hauled in a touchdown pass with less than two minutes left to pad the lead in a game that was close for much of the afternoon. Penn State led 16-13 at halftime.DaeSean Hamilton caught a first-quarter touchdown pass from McSorley who also ran for 47 yards in his first start.The first two drives we kind of got stalled out, McSorley said. The third drive we were able to get some first downs, push the ball down the field a little bit. I think that was actually the drive we ended up scoring on, too. That was where we finally started feeling thinks clicking. The momentum started building.Shane Hynes kicked two field goals for Kent State, and Elcee Refuge returned a McSorley fumble for a touchdown in the second quarter.THE TAKEAWAYKENT STATE: The Golden Flashes havent had much going for them offensively in quite a while, but their defense remains stout enough to give them hope.Kent States front seven kept the game within reach by limiting Barkleys running room early. Vaunted pass-rusher Terence Waugh killed a big wave of Penn State momentum midway through the second quarter when he hammered McSorley from his blindside, forcing a fumble that Refuge returned for a touchdown to tie the game 13-13. If Waugh can keep making plays, the Golden Flashes will have chances to turn games around.PENN STATE: A coordinator change doesnt guarantee immediate success. Saturdays sluggish start and uneven performance shows Joe Moorheads offense will need more time for all its parts to get on the same page.And the sooner the better as games loom against No. 7 Michigan, No. 6 Ohio State, and Maryland, teams that hung at least 52 points on its opponents in their openers. A bunch of missed tackles against Kent State is further evidence that Penn States offense will have to pull more weight than it has in the two previous years when elite defenses could bail it out.UP NEXTKent State will try to snap its six-game losing streak when it hosts FCS foe North Carolina A&T next Saturday.Penn State and Pittsburgh will renew a long-dormant rivalry when the Nittany Lions travel to Heinz Field next Saturday for the first game in a home-and-home series. 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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- North Carolina played one of the classics of the early part of the season in a showdown with Kentucky.Now the No. 8 Tar Heels want to take that experience and turn it into victories.The next chance for that comes Wednesday night at the Smith Center, where Northern Iowa will be the visiting team.This will be the first game for the Tar Heels since a 103-100 loss to Kentucky on Saturday in Las Vegas.We were right there with one of the best teams in the country, North Carolina swingman Justin Jackson said.North Carolina (10-2) has two games remaining before beginning Atlantic Coast Conference play, and with a full roster presumably available it could be a good opportunity to build on some of the things they picked up in the Kentucky game.I think that game showed us (we can be one of the best teams), guard Joel Berry said after returning from a two-game absence because of an ankle injury.North Carolinas offense was clicking to the tune of shooting 53 percent from the field, yet it was the only the fourth time under coach Roy Williams in 184 games of shooting 50 percent or better that the Tar Heels lost.Still, Williams likes that pace and the scoring.Were going to run, Williams said. Weve got to run. Weve got to get our big guys to run.Last season, Northern Iowa won against then-No. 1 North Carolina 71-67 in the only previous meeting between the teams. That was scheduled as a homecoming game in Cedar Falls, Iowa, for then-senior guard Marcus Paige, who then missed the game with the Taar Heels because of an injury.ddddddddddddNorthern Iowa (5-5) is coming off a 69-46 loss to Iowa on Saturday.There were some things we can take from that game and I think will help us against North Carolina, Panthers coach Ben Jacobson said. North Carolina pushes the ball ... North Carolina is bigger and even a better rebounding team than Iowa is.Jacobson said preparing the defense is of utmost importance, but that hes concerned about the teams offense.In Northern Iowas five losses, it shot less than 38 percent. In three of the losses, the Panthers failed to score more than 50 points.Now weve just got to find a little bit of rhythm to our offense, Jacobson said. Thats a group effort, honing in on a couple of things that we think will give guys direction, give them some confidence. Well keep poking around to try to find the right stuff.The Panthers have registered 17 victories against ranked Division I opponents and 14 of those have come since Jacobson joined the coaching staff in the 2001-02 season. Jacobson served as an assistant from 2001-06 before taking over as head coach.Senior Jeremy Morgan, the preseason Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year, leads the Panthers in scoring (17.7), rebounding (7.5), assists (3.3), blocked shots (1.6), steals (2.7), 3-pointers made (28 and free throws made (41). He needs 35 points to reach the 1,000-point mark in his career. ' ' '