James Franklin has an elite defense on his hands, but that hasn’t stopped the Penn State head coach from admiring a player from Big Ten East rival Ohio State, who his Nittany Lions will face in Columbus in a Week 8 matchup on “Big Noon Saturday” (Noon ET on FOX and the FOX Sports app). “A guy that I got like a coach crush on is No. 35 Tommy Eichenberg, [he] is just a really good football player. He’s fun to watch,” Franklin said at his weekly media availability Tuesday. “Physically, he can make the plays. He’s obviously the quarterback of the defense. Everything kind of goes through him. “You pick up a lot of stuff off tape watching him, as well as TV copies. Just a really smart, instinctive, athletic linebacker, who we have a ton of respect for.” Across Ohio State’s first six games, Eichenberg has totaled 46…
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