The Tigers are playing a Big Ten team in the regular season for the first time since 1931. The Nittany Lions face their first test against a Southeastern Conference team at home since 2011. I want their fans and the staff and their coaches to go back to the SEC and say, ‘We love our football in the SEC but what they do up there at Penn State….I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anything like it.’ ” Hall’s, we appreciate your support with this as well. “I’m willing to buy Hall’s for everybody who loses their voice on Saturday. “I am willing to buy throat lozenges on Sunday for the entire fan base if that means we have the most challenging environment in all of sports,” he said. We just want to go 1-0 this week, just be our best self each day and do what we can.”įranklin has implored Penn State fans to get inside Beaver Stadium early and to be loud enough throughout the night to make themselves hoarse. Like Coach Franklin said, we don’t want to make it bigger than what it is. Most players say it’s what you want to come here for. “I know it’s a big thing here at Penn State. Sophomore wide receiver Parker Washington is looking forward to playing in his first White Out game. “I tell the younger guys to go out there, execute, have fun and be yourselves.” “At the end of the day it’s just football,” Penn State defensive back Daequan Hardy said. Junior quarterback Bo Nix is 4-7 as a starter away from Auburn and has completed just 54% of his passes for 12 touchdowns with 12 interceptions. The Tigers have struggled on the road the last two years.
It usually is scheduled for when the Lions play Ohio State or Michigan, but Auburn is the first opponent other than the Buckeyes or Wolverines since Alabama in 2011. The first full-stadium White Out was in 2007 when Penn State routed Notre Dame 31-10.
“The impact and the electricity that it provides for our town, the local economy, our students, our campus and our community, I think it’s special.” I’ve been doing this (coaching) for a long time in pretty much every major conference and the NFL, and this is as good as it gets. “It’s something that everybody should experience. “If you’re a sports fan, you need to have a White Out on your bucket list,” Franklin said. He, of course, believes the White Out is unique. Join the conversation today.Lions coach James Franklin spent three years in the SEC as Vanderbilt coach. Let us know your thoughts by leaving a comment on this story below. 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).įollow Nittany Lions Wire on Twitter and like us on Facebook for continuing Penn State coverage and discussion.
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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