PSU1995

You should be in your dorm or apartment studying on a Thursday night, not out drinking it up. That's what I used to do. ...although there was that one time before finals week, and then there was this other time... (sigh) so many stories my kids will never be allowed to hear

Thursday night games are awesome. I mean, if you love college football what's better than getting the kids in bed for the night, sitting down to relaxe on the sofa, turning on the TV near the end of the work week and then....BAM!!!...college football in the house!

Time Warner in Lincoln will get it before this year is up I bet! If they have any brains at all, they will. I wouldn't be surprised to see cable rates go up because of it, though. Not that they don't jack them up all the time anyway. I'm in Pennsylvania and was *infuriated* that I wasn't able to see Penn State games because many cable carriers were not carrying it. I don't know if they failed to consider how many alums are in PA but I think they got some pressure and lost some business to the satellite carriers over it. I almost dumped my cable carrier over it. I emailed them frequently. I know a lot of other people did to. They finally relented although I know some still have not. B10 Network RULES on football Saturdays!

My guess is Mizzou, ND, Kansas and Rutgers. They would enhance the football and BBall reputation. Also get ND's national fan base, NY, St. Louis, KC markets. Rutgers is a ? just because they could be a flash in the pan but the NY market is monsterous. Rutgers does not have the NY market like you want to believe. The only people who watch Rutgers football are Rutgers alumni and students who live in New Jersey. I don't know a single Rutgers fan, I've never seen Rutgers on television, and I've never been to a Rutgers game and I don't know anyone who has. Rutgers may be the most wasted (not the alcohol kind of wasted) football program in the country, given its location. Nobody cares about Rutgers around here is the point I'm trying to make. Iowa State probably has many times more viewers on television than Rutgers. I could not have said it any better. Nobody gives two craps about Rutgers football, certainly not the New York market. They had their day in the sun a few years ago. Now they are back in the shadows of obscurity. I hated playing Rutgers when they were on our schedule, I mean...who cares? It's like Temple. Why the *hell* is TEMPLE still on PSU's SCHEDULE??? Cripes, man...enough of freaking Temple and Rutgers. Rutgers.

For the record, I knew we had no shot of picking up votes when the PSU-Oregon pairing looked to be a done deal. Nobody in State College was happy about playing the freaking Ducks, though I'm sure the Ducks were thrilled to get Penn State. When I watching the NU-Miami game I was actually pretty torn. On one hand, I knew that a NU win would kill us. On the other hand, I *loathed* Miami at the time since they still had the Thug U crap going and I badly wanted to see them smacked down. Figures the smackdown came indirectly at our expense.

Yes, OSU was ranked. The game was over in the first quarter after we went up 21-0. Just curious, how many of those guys in 1994 were still in the NFL a decade later? I believe we had four, Collins, Brady, Engram, and an O-lineman for Pittsburgh whose name escapes me. As for Karma, I was 9 in 1982 and have no interest in what happened that year. I already noted on here that PSU was gifted on a play that was clearly out of bounds. Bottom line - there's nothing I can say that will convince you that we would have taken NU to the woodshed. There's nothing you can say that NU would have taken us to the woodshed. For those of us that were around on both sides, we're all convinced in the superiority of our alma maters at that time. Hence the reason why NU-PSU is going to be significant to the Blue & White at the start of the 2011.

I won't dispute this point. The Big 10 was stupidly hanging on to the "tradition" of the "Grandaddy of them all". Whatever. It's not the grandaddy if it doesn't pit the right teams together. So I concede this, because you're right. (but we would have won )

Yes, I've heard all the arguments before. Paterno had a nasty tendency to call off the dogs once the game was in hand. That really made us look bad against Indiana who bombed away at the end and also went for 2 points to end the game. But we could also talk about how Penn State was sporting the nation's #1 offense. Would the Nebraska D hold up? How good must your defense be if you're offense is putting up two and three touchdowns in the first quarter? We could also talk about the 3 touchdowns that NU allowed against Pacific (you remember them? They dropped their football program in 1995), the 10 point win against unranked Wyoming (in Lincoln), and the 10 point win against unranked Oklahoma. The only equitable thing to have done was to split the NC if no game was going to be played.

If somebody can explain why Nebraska went to #1 in the polls ahead of Penn State after we killed a ranked Ohio State 63-14 back in 1994, I'm still waiting to hear it.

WTF? Doesn't anybody in Columbus drink real beer? Miller Lite, Coors Lite?? Sheesh, what's up with the cases of water Lite?

Like I said before, when the honeymoon is over the trash talking and other assorted crap that makes college football so much fun can start. I'm sure it won't be all pretty. But I just can't think of another University that fits so perfectly into the Big 10. After seeing the other names that were tossed around, there's no doubt that this would a simply brilliant addition. Frankly, I'd just as soon stop at 12 teams and call it a day. F Notre Dame. Over rated University that would top the league in the arrogance factor. B10 is better off w/o them. Would Crapper Dame be as excited about this move as Nebraska? Hardly. Putting Rutgers and Syracuse in the same discussion as Nebraska is insulting. No, this was a fantastic move. And now that my cable provider has the B10 Network...it doesn't get any sweeter!

I want iowa/PSU every year that will prevent: I like this one - Iowa PSU WIS NEB ILL IND Yeah, Iowa has played us tough and they would be great to have in the Division as well. I like your list. If you end Neb-PSU and ensure PSU v MU/OSU every season...it works for me.

I *think* I'd be OK with PSU-Nebraska each year as the last game of the regular season. Frankly, I never really thought the PSU-MSU match-up was that exciting. I have nothing against MSU, but it never really felt like a great way to end the season. With PSU-Nebraska, you probably have a large contingent of alums my age and older that will recall 1994 and favor the match-up. How do you address PSU v OSU/UM? I think if you can create a rotation where PSU plays either OSU or UM each year you still satisfy the desire to pair up with one of these two schools. We'd be playing one of them every year, it just rotates which one. Plus, if PSU is powering through their division and OSU / UM are doing the same...we'd play the other divisional powerhouse during the Championship game anyway. Yeah, there's a chance two teams could play each other more than once but I don't think that's a big deal. PSU-Nebraska to end the season, every season. PSU v OSU or UM every season, but not both in one season unless the pairing is via the B10 Championship. ...I think that could work.

I've never been to any games away from Beaver Stadium. But I have to say, that entrance at the Shoe is really nice. Beaver Stadium is pretty industrial looking underneath and at the entrances. The setup, however, seems to really concentrate the noise. With high sides all around it probably focuses the noise onto the field. Night games are fantastic, sadly the White Out came well after my graduation date. Stewart Mandel had this to say: If I was a Circuit City employee trying to woo a customer into buying a $2,000 High-definition plasma television, the first thing I would show him is Saturday night's broadcast of the Penn State-Illinois game. Even seeing it for a third time, it was impossible not to be awed by the visual grandeur of Penn State's "White Out," which manages to turn a 110,000-seat stadium one enormous flashbulb. It's powerful, it's organized (right down to the block "S" in one corner) and, quite frankly, it's awesome. Two words of advice to all the other schools trying to mimic it: Just stop. Seriously.

Would you have been able to point to Indiana on a blank map?