![]() ![]() 2 Ohio State (6-0), beating legendary coach Woody Hayes for a 2nd straight year.Ĭounting a 1956 meeting, it was the 3rd time in as many tries that Rip Engle and assistant Joe Paterno had taken down a top-10 Hayes-led squad. This was a monumental upset, as Penn State (3-4 entering the contest) took down No. Ohio State won out in the regular season and made the CFP ahead of 2-loss Penn State. Ohio State held PSU quarterback Trace McSorley to 8 completions, notched a safety on special teams and dominated almost every statistical category. This is probably the most magical moment in White Out after dark history for Penn State, and the Lions went on to win their lone Big Ten championship game that year. Marcus Allen blocked a long OSU field goal attempt, and Grant Haley did the rest, scooping up the ball and going 60 yards for the go-ahead score. ![]() 2 in the country.īut after the Buckeyes built a 21-7 lead through 3 quarters, Penn State chipped away and then delivered a haymaker of a knockout blow on special teams. The Lions (4-2) were unranked, and had been since 2011. Six years later, it is still hard to believe Penn State actually won this game, which it entered as a 17.5-point underdog. If not for this game, Ohio State would have been riding a 10-game series winning streak into its meet-up with the Lions back at Beaver Stadium in late October of 2022. Recent history provides the ultimate unlikely uber upset. Take out Penn State pre-Big Ten, and only 5 upsets have occurred over 29 meetings as league mates. ![]() Penn State rivalry that count as upsets, and we’re stretching a little bit to include the 8th one. There are only 8 games in the Ohio State vs. #PSUWhiteOut State has been the higher ranked and/or favored team in 26 of 36 meetings with Penn State since the inception of the AP Poll, so it stands as no surprise that the Nittany Lions have sprung the majority of the upsets in the series. If you ever wondered what a Penn State #Whiteout looks and sounds like on the field level, I give you this for your viewing pleasure, through my GoPro lens. ![]() Right NOW on ABC and streaming live in the ESPN App. One of the coolest scenes in college football. #WeAre #Legends #109kStrong /KkuXXOTRbuīest atmosphere in College Football hands down! There’s nothing like a Penn State Whiteout /2pcQWQxHjuĪs another whiteout game takes place at Penn State, an annual PSA that this is the best atmosphere in college football and it’s not even close /th3Glm757f □️ October 8, 2005: #OTD 15 years ago Penn State upset #6 Ohio State in front of College Gameday & the first primetime #WhiteOut crowd in one of the loudest atmospheres ever in Beaver Stadium history. And as the whiteout morphed from just a student section gimmick to a full-blown stadium-wide whiteout (the first coming in 2007 against Notre Dame in the first college start for Jimmy Clausen). Thanks to social media we can see some of these moments captured to look back on. Since that moment we have been privy to a ton of fun camera angles, fan views, and reporters being left in shock over the atmosphere the Nittany Lion faithful can create. Ohio State was led by Troy Smith, who would go on to win the Heisman Trophy the following season but Penn State was able to keep him in check, thanks to the Whiteout conditions the students created for the student-organized whiteout. The game would get all the bells and whistles including College Gameday coverage.Īs far as how the game would go, Penn State would go on to win the game led by then quarterback, current NFL Network analyst Michael Robinson. Penn State took on Ohio State in a top ten matchup between the teams in 2005, as Penn State was pulling itself out of some truly forgettable seasons and looking to win back some national respect. 9 Purdue, it was Penn State’s 2005 student whiteout that took things to the next level. After rolling out the first student-whiteout in 2004 for a game against Drew Brees and No. Looking back though, the first primetime Whiteout was something special. This year it is rumored the Whiteout game will be played at noon against Ohio State but that could change. A sold-out Beaver Stadium with 106,000 screaming fans and students that make the entire stadium shake, especially the press box. The Penn State Whiteout is arguably, no, it is the best tradition in not only college sports but all of sports one could argue. ![]()
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