Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game.Penn State was scheduled to play eight of the other ten Big Ten schools, all but Purdue and Wisconsin. Penn State was also tied for fifth nationally for the highest number of 2010 draft picks. In the 2010 NFL draft, six Nittany Lions ( Jared Odrick, Sean Lee, NaVorro Bowman, Andrew Quarless, Mickey Shuler, Jr., and Josh Hull) were drafted, tied with Iowa for most among Big Ten Conference schools. The Nittany Lions completed the season on New Years Day with a 19–17 victory over the LSU Tigers in the Capital One Bowl. The Nittany Lions finished the season with an 11–2 record and won the Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy award to the best team in the ECAC for the 28th time and the second consecutive year. Miami and Alabama tied for second place with a graduation rate of 75%. The 2009 Penn State Nittany Lions football team had the highest graduation rate among all of the teams on the Associated Press Top 25 poll with 89% of its 2002 enrollees graduating. Let’s challenge ourselves against this intensity that this crowd brings.’ Otherwise, if you get down 7-0, 10-0, it’s really going to be tough to dig yourself out of that hole because of the energy in that stadium. Now you’re in a hole, 7-0, and it just keeps spiraling.Īnd so if I were Michigan, I would say, ‘Hey, first quarter, we’re going to attack, we’re going to fight this, we’re not going to ease our way in. They get out of their game early because they can’t hear, there’s a false start, there’s a holding call, next thing you know, Penn State scores. What I’ve seen when I come here is the visiting team gets blown out early. Instead of getting quieter, they get louder and try to pull their team home to a victory. The way they sing along, like every person singing ‘Sweet Caroline,’ I don’t know, it just feels like family, it feels like community, it feels like the fans have their teams back, more so than any other situation or stadium I’ve been in.Ī true test of that is when things go bad, the crowd gets even louder. It’s something about, not just the noise, but the energy and the pride that’s within that stadium that night. It was ‘07, I think, when the whole stadium started to do it, and now we keep coming back. I was here in ‘05, and I think it was just the students, then, doing the White Out. “For me, the best atmosphere in college football is Saturday night at the White Out. This time around, Herbstreit had more great things to say about Penn State fans. Several years ago when GameDay was in Happy Valley, he called Penn State’s student section “the best in the country”. Herbstreit is known to love the Penn State whiteout. It’s what separates college football from other sports.” I think it’s one of the coolest experiences. They have a great playlist, by the way, to go with the White Out. It is cool to walk in the stadium and see everybody in white and they’re playing ‘Zombie Nation’ or whatever song they play. I don’t know if it’s the lighting in the stadium, if it’s the fact that you have very, very few who don’t cooperate and don’t participate. For whatever reason, it’s different here. Everybody does some “color out,” all across the country.
“It’s one of the best spectacles in college football. He had the following to say regarding Penn State’s annual whiteout game. It’s definitely the best north of the Mason-Dixon line.”ĭavis has traveled all across the country, but he stated that Penn State’s whiteout remains one of the most memorable atmospheres he’s ever had the pleasure to broadcast a game in. Penn State gameday is as good as it gets. “The whiteout has caused the Penn State atmosphere to make a 180. Note: All quotes from The Daily Collegian. He discussed how he remembered when Penn State crowd’s were known to be more conservative. It’s the reason he fell in love with college football. ESPN’s Chris Fowler, Rece Davis, and Kirk Herbstreit have all made it clear they believe Penn State’s annual whiteout game is the best atmosphere in college football.įowler grew up in State College because his father was a professor at Penn State. This is the eighth time GameDay has come to Penn State. This weekend, College GameDay will be returning to Penn State for the third straight season. College GameDay is coming to Happy Valley for the showdown. 16 Michigan on Saturday in front of a whiteout crowd.
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