Daryll Clark dropped back, saw no one open down field, then scrambled, trying to escape the collapsing pocket.

Indiana's Ryan Marando hit Clark causing the quarterback to cough up the ball. Clark glanced at the referee who signaled Indiana ball and then fumed on his way to the sideline. It was his third turnover on the day.

"I mean we had three turnovers, all from me," Clark said. "That can't happen. It's just I get upset and get really, really frustrated with the turnovers we've had. I've worked so hard to make sure things go the right way and hope everything goes the right way, to help, not hurt this team. And when it hurts the team, it bothers me a lot."

Clark finished with respectable numbers. He completed 20 of 36 passes for 240 yards and two touchdowns. Clark was efficient on third downs, hitting six of nine passes. Five of those throws sustained Penn State's drives. One was a touchdown pass to Deon Butler on third-and-goal.

Jay Paterno, Clark's position coach, called the touchdown pass a "big time read."

But Clark was more concerned with his turnovers, especially after last week when a ball thrown too high for Derrick Williams was intercepted by an Iowa player. That pick gave Iowa possession with enough time to kick a winning field goal and Clark shouldered the blame for that loss.

Against the Hoosiers, Clark had a chance to redeem himself early after Penn State safety Mark Rubin intercepted a Kellen Lewis pass at the Hoosier six-yard line. On the very next play, Penn State coaches called a quarterback draw, which Clark took up the middle. Before he could reach the ball over the goal line, however, Indiana's Jammie Kirlew knocked it from his hands.

"The first fumble, I thought I had it tucked," Clark said. "But one of the defenders got their arms in it real tight and ripped it out, and I tried to get it back but I couldn't. The second one, I had both my hands on it. I guess I didn't have one of my arms in front of the ball and one of the guys came over and slapped it down through my lap and it went to the ground."

Clark struggled to stay consistent throughout the game. Clark overthrew many of his incompletions and short-hopped a few throws to his wideouts.

The quarterback's worst throw of the day came in the third quarter. Clark spied wide receiver Deon Butler running down the right sideline, but Butler wasn't alone. The wideout had drawn double coverage and Clark hung a freebie up that any three of those players had a shot at. Indiana safety Brandon Mosley came down with the underthrown pass.

Clark said he didn't want to make excuses after the game, but said the ball was very slippery due to the steady downpour both teams had to contend with all day. Indiana's Lewis had no luck throwing the ball. The Hoosier quarterback completed just 9 of 21 throws for 57 yards.

After the game, Joe Paterno said he thought Clark played a good game and wanted to keep him in the game as long as he could to keep his confidence up.

"That is one of the reasons I kept him in there," Paterno said. "I figured he has to work his way through some of that. We are going to talk a lot about the fumbles. He had the two fumbles and that's just carelessness. Sometime you have those days. He has had some problems, but I think he needs to work his way through it."