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#5 Penn State at MICHIGAN STATE
Everybody excited?! Even though Ohio State had more hype, this is the BIGGEST game that Penn State has played since 1994, because the stakes – a Big11Ten championship/BCS bid — are the highest since then. If they win, they are in, if they lose, they probably head to Orlando or [...]

Penn State may have a bye week, but that does not mean that Carroll H. Cook (‘54 Pitt) did not have a few things to say about the Nittany Lions during his weekly ESPN SportsNation chat.
Larry (Wash., D.C.): Hey Beano! What’s the biggest story in college football this year thus far?
Beano Cook: Notre Dame, Penn [...]

#10 PENN STATE 35 #14 Wisconsin 14
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — This past Saturday was just about as perfect a football Saturday as you can get. The weather was great, the tailgate (biggest of the year) was lots of fun, and the Lions got a big win over a ranked team, their closest competitor for the [...]

PATERNO AND RACE
Paterno links black athletes to increased scoring – ESPN.comAn old friend out in San Francisco asked me in an e-mail if there would be any fallout from Joe Paterno’s statements on black athletes during the Big11Ten conference call yesterday. Off Wing Opinion also noted it.
You have to be careful the way you say [...]

Happy Senior Day! Saturday is the last appearance for a whole lot of Nittany Lions (Post Gazette) in Beaver Stadium including most of the lines, all of the secondary, the starting quarterback and the special team standout and underachiever. It should be a heck of a crowd; tents are already going up at Gate A [...]

#11 PENN STATE 33 Purdue 15
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Another one in the win column for Penn State. It was not a terribly pretty victory over Purdue, but I am not going to complain too much about a 33-15 final.
After weeks of saying “Tony Hunt is going to have a breakout game” he finally did. [...]

#10 PENN STATE vs. Purdue
Happy Homecoming! Get ready for fall foilage, hot apple cider, the Alumni Blue Band, and sorority girls in new windbreakers. Oh yeah, there is a football game too.
The Lions return from a two game, 1-1 roadtrip to face the Boilermarkers, who are a surprising 2-5, though 4-3 Indiana are probably a [...]

Penn State-Wisconsin Senior Day Clash Set for 3:30 p.m. Kickoff on ABC Sports – gopsusports.comThis means that only one home game had a noon kickoff, which is certainly unusual, but is a sign that television is happy about Penn State’s return to national prominence. I was pulling for noon since it allows for easier travel [...]

#12 Penn State 63 ILLINOIS 10
The first question the comes to mind is whether Penn State can score as many points against Illinois in men’s basketball as they did in football. I do not believe that they can.
Ladies and gentleman, what we witnessed last night on ESPN2’s national telecast was a good old-fashioned rout, like [...]

#12 Penn State at ILLINOIS
We no longer have the burden of wondering whether Penn State will get left out if there is a glut of undefeated teams on Jan. 1. That being said, there is still the chance of winning the Big11Ten, which the Lions are leading (with Wisconsin). The run for the conference title [...]