Highs and lows from Saturday's Penn State-Indiana game:

Player of the game: Navorro Bowman had 12 tackles, a sack, and an interception and return that turned the game for good. Sean Lee (10 tackles) may have had a better game play-for-play, but Bowman made the big ones.

Offensive player of the game: Evan Royster. The junior running back had 95 yards in 17 carries and one touchdown, and four receptions for 39 yards and another TD, a key one. On a day when the offense did not bathe itself in glory, that was more than enough.

Play of the game: Penn State was floundering and reeling and many other bad things when Penn State LB Navorro Bowman picked off a screen pass and went 73 yards for a game-turning, third-quarter TD.

Play of the game (controversial): Had to be Evan Royster's 13-yard, second-quarter touchdown on a swing pass from Daryll Clark, not only because it tied the game, but because of the hairline holding-non-call on which the game, and IU coach Bill Lynch's apoplexy, swung.

Best catch: Indiana WR Damarlo Belcher couldn't have been better covered, and couldn't have been closer to the sideline, when he hauled in a 27-yard Ben Chappell pass (which survived a replay review) for his team's first touchdown.

Hold on to it, will ya?: We don't have enough space for all the nominees in this category, but let's go with Derek Moye failing to hold on to a second-quarter pass, albeit in tight space, that was right in his breadbasket. In the end zone.

Best hit: Early in the fourth quarter, Penn State safety Nick Sukay plastered IU receiver Mitchell Evans and separated him from the ball on the goal line.

Key stat: Indiana ran for just 48 yards in 24 carries, Penn State for 181 in 39. Other than that, the game numbers were very even.

Did you notice? When the officials announced there would be a replay ruling on Indiana's first touchdown, coach Bill Lynch, whose club has had problems with refs and replays this year, took off his headset and heaved it skyward.

Maybe the Hoosiers were due — they went two-for-two on replays —although they probably don't feel lucky right now.

• After two-and-a-half quarters of Penn State dropping the ball all over the place, Graham Zug received a Bronx cheer from the crowd for successfully fair-catching a punt.

• In the final minutes, the officials instructed the game-clock operator to take one second off the clock, and got a round applause.