Only one thing disgusted James Franklin on Saturday, another riled him up

While Penn State beat Nevada 46-11 on Saturday, not everything about the afternoon was pretty. Head coach James Franklin had two major complaints: one about a two-point conversion and the other about the officiating.

Referee mishaps anger James Franklin as seconds wind down in fourth quarter

The officials had a few questionable calls they upheld in the game, including two touchdowns. Nicholas Singleton's first score in which the ball and his body clearly crossed the plane into the end zone was under review. Then Kaytron Allen's extension to touch the pylon, which was knocked over by the Nevada defender, went under review as well. Both calls resulted in Nittany Lion touchdowns.

Neither of these ruffled any of Franklin's feathers, though.

In the fourth quarter, all Penn State had to do was take a knee to wrap up the game neatly. It's starters were sidelined for the final 15 minutes of the game, meaning it was up to Ethan Grunkemeyer to tack on the afternoon's ending.

In a series of confusion, the Nittany Lions were handed a delay of game penalty. Franklin immediately burst into anger, shouting at his team to snap the ball. After the next snap and a confusing play to have running back Cam Wallace carry up the middle for two yards while both teams were ready to run out onto the field to end the game, Grunkemeyer went over to his head coach and explained what happened.

According to Franklin's postgame interview on the field with CBS sideline reporter Jenny Dell, the officials confused the Nittany Lion offense by telling them the clock was going to run. They were then charged with the delay of game penalty, sending Franklin into fury. Upon hearing it from his quarterback, the head coach burst onto the field, beelining for the referees in anger.

“I was not happy with the last [penalty]," Franklin said to reporters in the postgame press conference. "The official is in the huddle holding us, turns to the umpire, says, pump the clock. He doesn't do it, then throws a flag on us. Then I go and address it.”

Two-point conversion failure disgusts James Franklin in third quarter

Jaxon Smolik took the field for a two-point conversion attempt in the third quarter. After Nicholas Singleton's one-yard rushing touchdown, his second score of the afternoon, Smolik took the field and close to nobody from the outside knew exactly what the plan was after it was executed.

"The only thing that was somewhat disgusting was the two-point fake field goal," Franklin said in the postgame press conference. "That was probably the only thing in the game that was disgusting, but everything else, pretty good."