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Mediocrity Bowl

November 4, 2007 Penn State Football

Purdue handed us one. Two mediocre, middle-of-the-pack Big Ten teams played a mediocre game for the rights to go to a mediocre post-season bowl game. While some individual performances were noteworthy, the flaws in both these teams were exposed in this game, which, by the way, ended in the win column for Penn State 26-19.

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Footballistic Confessions of a Geezer

October 19, 2007 Penn State Football

The State of Things in 1964 In 1964, the year of my matriculation to Penn State, the following things were true: Joe Paterno was an assistant to Rip Engle Girls had to live in women-only dorms unless they were 21 or married Jerry Sandusky was playing defensive end and also played offense Girls had to [...]

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Comfortable at Home

October 14, 2007 Penn State Football

State beat #19 Wisconsin 38-7 to bring both schools’ records to 5-2 overall and 2-2 in the Big Ten.

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Turn About

October 7, 2007 Penn State Football

The Nittany Lions (4-2, 1-2 Big Ten) came out looking like they have looked in every game this year, with the exception that they were Scott free. However, against a crappy Iowa defense, they figured out that they could win this game, and they woke up midway through the second quarter instead of waiting for the second half. For a while, it looked like the predictions of final scores to rival the notorious 6-4 Iowa win of the 2004 season would come true. (My prediction was 9-6; I saw some others like 3-2 and, hilariously, 1-0). However, Penn State prevailed authoritatively, whipping hapless Iowa 27-7.

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