PHILADELPHIA - In the quiet of the tunnel that leads to the locker rooms at Lincoln Financial Field, a lot could be told about what was going on just a few feet away inside the stadium.

Penn State defensive coordinator Bob Shoop walked by, his eyes down and his lips pursed, his face twisted like he was tasting bile. Behind him, offensive coordinator John Donovan stared straight ahead as if hoping the answers were written somewhere on the Linc's cinder block walls, beads of sweat on his brow belying the fact he spent the afternoon in an air-conditioned booth.Penn State's next game stands less than a week away. There are a lot of questions to answer, plenty of soul searching to do, before then.Where do the Nittany Lions go next? How can they recover from arguably the darkest Saturday afternoon they've ever had on a football field?Senior center and captain Angelo Mangiro said it's a simple path: Focus on Saturday's game against Buffalo at Beaver Stadium.The biggest question isn't where they go next, but whether they can get past what happened in their nightmarish 2015 debut.Of course, the mentality of the Nittany Lions will have to improve in the face of some very real issues that developed Saturday.After a strong start that had to encourage fans looking for major improvement with the offensive line, the offense completely fell apart offensively at the start of the second quarter.Embattled quarterback Christian Hackenberg was sacked a career-high 10 times in the final three quarters and the running game ground to a halt after rushing for 88 yards on eight first-quarter attempts.Head coach James Franklin insisted the Nittany Lions weren't going to see wholesale personnel changes on the offensive line, maintaining the best five players are the ones in the lineup - at least until redshirt freshmen like Brendan Brosnan, Chance Sorrell and Scranton Prep grad Noah Beh are ready to take over.But the Nittany Lions will need to find ways to overcome deficiencies in pass protection - namely, the inability of the front five to adjust on the fly - in order to do what Franklin said it most needs to: protect Hackenberg."The biggest thing we did was start to disguise (blitzes)," Temple linebacker Tyler Matakevich said. "We could tell that (Hackenberg) got really uncomfortable, and he starts making checks right away. We knew that if we were bringing a blitz from a certain side, just set it up. Their line couldn't pick it up, and we were just making plays."Things weren't much better on defense, either. Penn State looked battered, bruised and deflated once it lost middle linebacker Nyeem Wartman-White for the remainder of the season to a left leg injury suffered while covering a punt in the second quarter. Temple scored all 24 of its points and gained 266 of its 317 total yards with Wartman-White sidelined."I feel for the guy, and I know he's a great player and a better person," defensive end Carl Nassib. "(But) I don't think anyone can deflate our defense."With Wartman-White tagged as the unchallenged replacement for defending Big Ten linebacker of the year Mike Hull in the middle, there is little experience behind him. The Nittany Lions likely will turn to walk-on Gary Wooten Jr., who left Saturday's game with an undisclosed injury. True freshman Jake Cooper also saw action.This loss doesn't affect the Big Ten standings, and most of the team's goals for 2015 are still, conceivably, reachable."We're a better team than we put out there (Saturday)," Lewis maintained.