Penn State THE DRIVE 1994

[630PARKAY]

I AM SO SICK,EVERYTHING PENN STATE!!!!!!

[mongoose704]

Illinois had some real talent on their team. Simeon Rice, Kevin Hardy, Dana Howard were all consensus all americans at some point in their career. John Holocek played many years in the NFL. Penn State was the only team to score 20 or more points on that team other than Purdue. Purdue managed 22 thanks to 9 defensive points.

[1MikeMcHugh]

Fran Fisher was maybe the worst play by play announcer in the college football history. As much as I love Penn State, Fisher was absolutely horrible.

[mildgreen07]

Great Fran Fisher calls

[kepsfacebook2]

Bobby Ingram is a beast!

[NittanyNation88]

gotta love fran fisher & george paterno here, makes me feel good no matter what

[NittanyNation88]

gotta love fran fisher & george paterno here, makes me feel good no matter what

[NittanyNation88]

gotta love fran fisher & george paterno here, makes me feel good no matter what

[loyaldude10]

This was a classic. Penn State came into game undefeated and ranked #1. Illinois was tough and had great defense. They jumped out to a 21-0 lead, and everyone thought PSU was dead. The last adversity was when Illinois punter pinned them back inside the 10, not to mention the weather elements.

[GreenRiver72]

First football game I ever watched as a youngin. Got me hooked foreva, and made me the Penn State fan I am today. Although I doubt the Lions will ever be as good as the old days.

[driver8train]

If the BCS had existed in 94 Penn State would have been national champions in my opinion.

[dpinzow]

It would have been a great matchup (remembering both Nebraska and Penn St. from 1994). Most likely we'd see a very high-scoring game, but Penn State's defense, always stout against the run, would get a couple of more stops against Nebraska's option than the blackshirts would have gotten against Penn State's NFL caliber offense playing on the college level

38-24 Penn State (if they played)

[psufan001]

ive watched this video like twenty times and i did not even realize that was tood blackledge at the beginning haha.

[mongoose704]

Hawk fan here. I remember that 1994 team. We went down 42-0...after a QUARTER! You deserved a share of the national title that year. PSU wasn't great, they were scary.

but foerget the arguments. It should have been settled on the field: Nebraska vs Penn State and only one can be the winner. All three sides were robbed (yes even Nebraska. Just look at the 1984 Orange Bowl and it leaves no doubt.)

The Huskers, Lions, and even the college football fans were robbed.

[rcd2c2]

I saw that game on the big ten network

[kimvaterra]

This was one of the best college games I've ever seen. I remember this game and I remember Kyle Brady at the end doing an interview and he looked huge. I remember how Simeon Rice was so emotional after the loss. And because of Kyle, Simeon said he is going back to the weight room. This PSU team was one of the best of all time.

[zoomping1]

I remember that team fondly...........undefeated, untied, yet unrewarded. I would have at least liked to have seen Penn State match up against Nebraska that year. Instead, Nebraska was awarded the national title before Penn State even took the field vs Oregon. Oh well, it is what it is..........And it was a special year nonetheless.

[666jewkid]

yeah I think Nebraska would have been a good game in 1994

[AlHelf]

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[PSUEvangelism]

GO PSU

Do you know how to get to heaven when you die?

[brasonfan]

Man the got screwed that year.

[westyone1]

I will never forget that, power went out, guys had to eat pizza, got a bad nights sleep, so we all turned off our lights in our apartments and rallied with...what a great year to be a senior student at PSU..

[MVillani1985]

Lay off the laughing gas and stop trolling Penn State videos. I don't go to USC videos and go "ROFL USC sucks ass because they lost to Oregon State!".

[brasonfan]

At least it isn't embarrasing to lose to USC, they were expected to win. USC is in a cake conference. Period. With a cake schedule. How many USC men have gone onto the NFL and been amazing?

[malvernraja]

um mark sanchez....

[brasonfan]

No, they got ripped by the refs. Even the sprots networks were wondering why half the penalties that SHOULD have been called weren't. Like team celebrations in the end zone? Taunting. Never called.

So go away with yourself, because you obviously know nothing about NCAAF if you think USC is any better than PSU basedon ONE GAME. A home game, might I add, for USC.

[misdreavus79]

And this year you get whooped by Oregon, Stanford, WASHINGTON, and Arizona.

How the 'mighty' have fallen...

[alonzi1]

make mean comments on this guys channel (UFfan85) please

[Duffy188]

my hs football coach is #87, the tight end on the right (left from our view) who had the key block on the td play. WAY 2 GO O!

[Preds98]

I met KC last Thursday and I thanked him for resigning with the Titans and told him what a great job he did for us even though we didn't go far in the playoffs and he thanked me. Real nice guy. I mentioned to him the famous Drive how awesome that was and he chuckled.

[BassAssassin9]

I remember the '94 offense. So many weapons. They were truly amazing to watch. I seriously doubt that us PSU fans will ever have see an offense of that caliber in our lifetimes don the blue and white.

[MVillani1985]

Possibly the best offense of all time. What many forget is that the defense, although not one of PSU's best, was still really good, since many of the points given up were in garbage time after Penn State would get out to a monster lead and put in the backups. The only team all year to give Penn State real trouble was a better than their record Illinois who was very close to being undefeated, but the offense pulled through in the end.

[lovdahuskers]

@MVillani1985 70th rated defense, a defense that give up 500+ yards and 27 points to Rutgers when Rutgers wasn't even good isn't anywhere near a "really good defense." What are you smoking? A defense that gives up nearly 400 yards of offense to big, slow 3 yard and cloud of dust Big 10 offenses!!! NOPE! On the scale or graph of good defense, this defense falls a lot closer to the "really bad" side of the scale than the "really good." COUGH COUGH LMAO!

[MVillani1985]

@lovdahuskers Do you even know what YOU'RE talking about, or do you just look at basic info like everyone else and talk trash without diong research? Do you even know WHY they gave up so much on defense? Joe Paterno doesn't like to run up the score on teams, so yes, his third and fourth string defenses that year were worse than most first team defenses. Remember that Rutgers game? Penn State led 55-0 before subbing in inexperienced players. He could have preserved the shutout had he wanted.

[MVillani1985]

@MVillani1985 Do you even know what you're talking about? NOPE! And by the way, these "three yards and a cloud of dust" offenses (similar to Nebraska's, BTW) were piling up tons of yards on really good teams, including Ohio State's near upset of an Alabama team that was one of the best in the nation, one point away from being possible national champions. By the way, you'd better lay off that laughing gas, it's making you sound even dumber than your average SEC troll, and that's hard to do.

[wazzupriders]

oh kerry why couldnt you perform with the giants....

[adrlite]

I bet it's real tough convincing the nation's top recruits to come play in sunny southern california.. i am not impressed

[MHR95isback]

USC ROCKS

Carroll>Paterno

Caroll has more national championships in 35 less years!

[uknowimmancandy]

it's not hard to go undefeated in the pac-10 and go to the national championship...

[MVillani1985]

And you think Penn State was never screwed out of national championships? The national championships have always been about politics, and before 1998, you didn't even have a bowl game matching up #1 and #2 in most cases.

[BarryPaterno]

You're joking, right? Paterno has gone undefeated 5 times, and has had top 3 teams in each of the last 5 decades...The man is by far the greatest coach in our lifetime...Your coach has only gone undefeated one time, Please.

[Glant021]

the touchdown looked alot like the alan ameche touchdown in the greatest game ever played. was that bobby engram from the seahawks?

[underthesea42]

yep, and KC from the Titans

[brivance1975]

I'm a Penn State fan. I remember every game of the 1994 season. And even though them not winning a share of the championship left a bad taste in my mouth, in my heart they were and still are the champions that year. Go Lions !

[bts1720]

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[Hunkola]

Penn State got FUCKING ROBBED in 1994 without at least a share of the national title......they should have played Nebraska that year to settle it on the field......but yes, I agree '95 Nebraska was simply jaw-dropping awesome......not sure if we'll ever see an offensive team that good again in my lifetime.

[amt72483]

I'm a diehard Penn State fan, and although we were the better team in 1994, I've watched the 1982 PSU-Husker game many times and the guy was definitely out of bounds. So perhaps it is fitting that Nebraska got the title in 1994.

I think 94 Penn State had the best offense in the last 25 years, but 95 Nebraska would have defeated them soundly.

[SFFOOL76]

I wish they got a split vote in 1994. Penn State has gotten screwed besides 1994, like in 68,69, and 73. Plus Osborne got that 1994 title out of sympathy like bowden did in 1993. However I won't argue about that 1995 nebraska team, imo that was best college football team EVER!

don't let anyone think the 2001 miami team was the best, they barely beat some teams that year.

[nowayjose470]

So Nebraska beats two top five teams, goes undefeated, and you call it a sympathy title? I know you're pissed and you're right to be but that doesn't make Nebraska undeserving. Blame the system that never gave your team the chance they deserved to prove it on the field vs Nebraska. You got robbed by the NCAA which should've matched those two teams up to settle it on the field.

And we, the fans from all over the college football landscape were robbed of a great game.

[thomasdm2]

I agree with you about 94 and I appreciate the 95 thing but in 68 and 69 penn state didn't belong to a top conference and you didn't play a lot of hard games so I dont think you were screwed out of those titles. In 94, maybe, but the voters gave the title to us because we beat Miami (the number 3 team in the country) in the Orange Bowl (their home field), not because they felt bad for Osborne. I mean if Osborne wanted to be handed a title he would have kicked the extra point in 83.

[nowayjose470]

You'll never know. Nebraska beat two top five teams in 1994 and had a great defense. The best team Penn State beat had four losses: Oregon and Ohio State. I still remember that offense though. Downright explosive.

Still Penn State deserved a share of the title so yes, they were robbed. Furthermore the fans were robbed because we never got to see those two teams prove it against each other.

[DBC396]

@nowayjose470 I saw the Michigan game on ESPN classic a few weeks ago and i think Michigan was like ranked #2 at the time ... i could be wrong though.

[thomasdm2]

when i said oregon was outside of the big ten i meant the top 10

[thomasdm2]

Plus, saying that you have two heisman finalists as a criteria for your greatness is rediculous. Its based on biased sportswriters voting. For example, in 1995 was Eddie George really a more "outstanding" player than Tommie Frazier? No way, but they gave him the trophy anyways. Also, Eric Crouch wasn't the most outstanding player in 2001, that trophy should have gone to Joey Harrington.  My point is that the heisman should not be a measuring stick for the success of a program

[thomasdm2]

Don't get me wrong I'm not saying that makes what happened ok, because I wish as much as you do they played the game beacuse like you I feel my team (Nebraska) would have won. Plus I wouldn't have to listen to everyone talk about how we were handed the title. What I am saying is that its not like we played cupcakes all year. We did beat 2 of the top 6 teams in the final stadings while you only team one top ten team. Im not saying you dont have your argument, but we have ours too.

[thomasdm2]

Look I agree. I wish our teams could have played. Now I believe that our 95 team was by far the best team ever as we set records for points scored, while playing 4 top 10 teams. That being said I understand why you feel penn state should have won in 1994. My argument is not that you can't say that definitevely. The fact is you never played us. And, while you beat an oregon team (outside of the big ten) in your bowl game, we had to beat #3 Miami at their home stadium.

[darastakid]

The Lions deserves top honors! Pete Cangemi Tampa, Fla. To not include one single Penn State team on this list is a travesty. How typical ... The best PSU team of all time didn't even win the National Championship because the media and coaches were too busy giving Osborne his first of two sympathy national titles. The '94 Nits had perhaps the greatest offense of all-time with Kerry Collins, Ki-Jana Carter, Kyle Brady, Bobby Engram, Freddie Scott and an offensive line that allowed only four sacks

[darastakid]

the 1994 penn state team got cheated a national title.

[thomasdm2]

just the kind of response i would expect from you. thats the problem with fans like you: you're like school in the summer- NO CLASS.

[thomasdm2]

also, for future reference, the WE ARE (insert team name) chant only works when the name of the school has one name. we are penn state just doesnt have a good ring to it. neither does we are nebraska. i mean its just a bad chant to begin with but it sounds really stupid when you sayd WE ARE PENN STATE. and the huskers didnt run up the score the way you did. we just ran the football up the middle and happened to get 50 yard gains. you were running fly routes while up 40 in the 4th quarter.

[mattrmc19]

you're a fag.

[SFFOOL76]

Lawrence Phillips, now there's a class act.

[thomasdm2]

when did anyone say he was? What point are you trying to make? The fact that Lawrence Phillips was a bad guy has nothing to do with who won the 94 national title.

[SFFOOL76]

I was being a smart ass, that's all.

I think Pelini is in the right direction, he's gonna win the big-12 north titles on a yearly basis pretty soon.

[thomasdm2]

Rocket4Barrel- calm down dude. first of all, nebraska is higher in wins, national championships, all americans, acedemic all americans, heisman winner ect... so yeah we are historically a better program. that being said, penn state is a great program and until recently was a model one as well. i wish we could have played you in 94 too beacuse im sick of hearing about how we didnt deserve that title. also, tom osborne wouldnt have accepted anything handed to him. case in point 1984 orange bowl.

[Hunkola]

The 1994 PSU team is still widely regarded as one of the best offenses in college football history. With the exception of the Illinois game, it wasnt much of a contest every week that season - just a matter of how many points the Nittany Lions would score. I just wish the BCS system was in place back then and we could have played Nebraska for the legitimate national championship - instead of a poo-poo sympathy award given to Tom Osborne.....WE WERE FUCKING ROBBED !!!

[MVillani1985]

But I would like to add that it's a little disheartening to see once great teams like Nebraska and Washington crumbling. I thought Penn State was going to crumble after 2003-2004, but luckily that was just two anomolies (2000-2001 were bad, but not worse than seen before).

I'd like to see the Huskers start going 8-4 or better again. Same with Washington. 8-4 isn't exactly elite, but it's still good. And there's a good chance you finish ranked, like Penn State did going 9-4 for two years.

[thomasdm2]

i didnt mean to start anything here i was just saying that i think its unfair how people consider 94 penn state one of the greatest teams ever, when nebraska won the title, and even if they deserved to share it (which was prob true) penn state had no way of saying that they were the better team. its funny because we have the trophy, but everyone considers your team to be better. maybe thats the way things even out, but i dont think you can say 94 psu was better than 94 nu (and prob vice versa)

[MVillani1985]

There are lots of great uncrowned but untested teams, 1994 Penn State is one of them. 1994 Penn State made good teams look like Division I-AA teams, and bad teams look like high school teams. The only reason the defense looked bad is because often the second, third, and sometimes fourth string defense was in to avoid running up the score (like against Ohio State, we could have easily scored 84 on them).

I will agree with one thing. Penn State should have shared it, like Michigan did in 1997.

[darastakid]

the best team in colege 1. Penn State, 1994 (76 letters) I'll never know why Nebraska gets so much pub. That team was handed a national title in 1994! Penn State was by far the best team in the country in '94 and maybe in the past 20 years. The 1994 team had professional players at every position. They were robbed of a rightful ring because the voters felt bad for Tom Osborne not winning the year before when they gave the trophy -- unjustly -- to Bobby Bowden at Florida State. What a sham!

[darastakid]

Penn State defeats the best Miami team ever in the '86 Fiesta Bowl ... defeats Georgia in the Sugar with Walker ... pounds "Gang Green" like they were a DIII team and still gets no respect -- pathetic! Jason Stephens Phoenix The best team in NCAA history was also the one most screwed out of a national title. First, the team finished undefeated playing a Big Ten schedule. Second, the team had the greatest offense in the history of college football (two players were Heisman finalists).

[Stotan2]

Could somebody please post more 94' clips...I cant find any , ANYWHERE else....this is probably one of the greatest teams in college football history

[mhpsu1]

Both have great traditions.thomasdm2 seems to hate penn st-maybe because they beat neb 7/13 times or because they haven't finished higher than 18 since '01. I hope they make it back. it would be great to see them ranked again. As for '94,neb had a great team but penn st would not lose that yr. The hint of negativity about penn state's coach is just unfortunate. Good luck,thomasdm2,maybe they'll hire someone who takes them back to the top ten. holla when you arrive. penn st will be there.

[vinnymckee]

Do us a favor--go make your own videos about Nebraska--I'll happily watch & enjoy your proud tradition without being a punk.

This video is not about Nebraska. It is about a single PSU drive against the nation's #1rated defense.

As for your 1994 team beating us..you would not have outscored a team that averaged over 47 pts a game. All 11 starters on offense were Pros-(3 Pro Bowlers). When you add the back-ups at TB, FB & the #3 WR you get 103 years of NFL experience on that unit.

[Mr420woo]

@vinnymckee Nebraska would have killed Penn State in 1994.

[vinnymckee]

Talk all the crap you want about the Big 12---but do it on some message board somewhere.

For the record RCA and Garth Brooks put up $20 million for PSU and Nebraska to play after the bowls in 1995--PSU agreed to play and someone else didn't....

No one here even mentioned Nebraska but you felt you had to come on and make comments. But seriously Penn State is 7-2 all-time in Bowl Games against the Big 12 under Joe P so I really don't think he fears the Big 12 (or Big 8).

[danielabq22]

well of course the second place team would want to play another game. the number 1 team nebraska had the national championship so they had nothing to win by playing another game. You think the giants would want to play another super bowl? get real

[vinnymckee]

Read the threads...the comment was in response to the comment about "we would have played you"....apparently that is not true.

[travel3rv]

@vinnymckee amen

[thomasdm2]

wait but then there is my favorite stat. in 1994, your best victories were USC (#14) at home, ohio state (#21) at home and michigan (#5)who you barely beat (that would be this clip) and finally oregon (#12). Are you serious? While we were playing #3 miami. yeah i think we might have deserved that title. also, we would have played you, but the big ten was too afraid to go play anyone except the weak pac 10 (you would opt out ot the rose bowl deal) so its your fault that well never know.

[MVillani1985]

Penn State still beat Michigan, and they beat them in their own stadium. And they didn't "barely beat them". I never felt Penn State was in danger of losing that one. This was a Michigan who was one play away from before that being undefeated.

You can talk about all the weak teams we played all you want, and you might have a case if we struggled against them. But no, we kicked the living shit out of them. The only tough game we had was against Illinois, but a very underrated Illinois team.

[thomasdm2]

oh and for an encore, we beat you 44-6 the next year. penn state isnt even in the same league with nebraska when it comes to football tradition. when did you guys win back to back national championships? oh thats right never, we've done it twice. oh and in 1987 (your other nc) you played one ranked team in the regular season. ONE RANKED TEAM. congrats on going undefeated that year, good work.

[Rocket4Barrel]

Not in the same league with Nebraska when it comes to football tradition? What the hell kind of drugs are you on dude? 792 all time victories sixth best and soon to be fifth isn't tradition huh. We would have kicked the crap out of your boys in '94 if we were given the chance. I can remember very well seeing your Huskers running up the score over the years against teams like New Mexico St, Troy State, etc so don't come on hear and throw out your BS about us not playing anyone. WE ARE PENN ST!!

[darastakid]

all season and helped Carter to a preposterous 7.9 yards per carry. 12-0. Undefeated. Unchallenged. Uncrowned.

[thomasdm2]

HOME and (sorry i meant 3 top 5 teams) Georgia. Pittsburgh was ranked 5 in one poll but was ranked number 6 in three others. plus, when you get a national championship after losing a game, you cant exactly talk about how you handled a tough schedule. try this. 1971 nebraska beat #2 oklahoma (and this is in the final ranking not just when they played them) #3 colorado and #4 Alabama in the same year. paterno had one year where he scheduled tough oponents and he lost a game.

[thomasdm2]

youre right, penn state did play all of those opponents, IN DIFFERENT YEARS. they had the advantage of not having teams play them year after year, they had the advantage of making sure they knew how many good teams they would play. plus, unlike nebraska (who always played oklahoma and colorado) never beat two top five teams in the same season (nebraska has done it 3 times). you almost did it in '82, but you lost to alabama (the only top 10 team you played on the road). you edged nebraska at

[vinnymckee]

Thomasdm2-you have no clue.

Penn State playing inferior opponents? in 1982PSU was the first team ever to win the National Title playing the nation's toughest schedule. in 1994 PSU's schedule included USC and was rated higher than Nebraska's. Using every BCS formula since the inception of the BCS PSU would have gone into a National Title Game ranked AHEAD of Nebraska.

Joe Paterno has the best postseason record in college football history and has ALWAYS favored a playoff.

[mongoose704]

@vinnymckee We wuz robbed. Fans of all college football that is. We should have seen Nebraska and Penn State for the 1994 championship. That 1994 Penn State team deserved an epic challenge, the type the 1994 Cornhuskers could have given them. Fantastic offense vs fantastic defense.

Can't be angry at Nebraska for Penn State being screwed out of the title. It was the voters and the college football system itself.

[JtheWun]

Engram turned out the best of that bunch.

[psufan001]

they obviously had a lot of trouble stopping the nation's top rated offense. go penn state, #1 babay. i wonder how many td passes kerry collins threw for in that game.

[thomasdm2]

penn state got what they deserved. joe paterno spent most of his career playing inferrior opponents and it finally caught up to him. the reason the numbers say they had the harder schedule was because iowa state was 0-10. other than them, the big 12 was a much better conference that year. also, jo pat helped keep the big tens deal with the rose bowl which is why they couldnt play nebraska. maybe if they werent scared of having to play someone not in the pac ten we would know the real champs

[MVillani1985]

You mean like Texas, Notre Dame, Nebraska, Alabama, and Miami? Penn State played great teams as an independant AND as a Big Ten member. Think before you open your mouth.

[letsgoPSU10]

what about playing 1-aa pacific? thats who you guys played.

[dpinzow]

thomasdm2,

Nebraska played in the Big 8 at that time...the Big 12 wasn't formed yet

[gymman1031]

What a drive this was! Illinois finished 7-5, but IMHO, they were MUCH better than their record showed. Penn State sure showed the signs of a championship team with this drive! It is a shame that Nebraska won the title outright and that Penn State couldn't play Nebraska. However, a lot of people don't realize that there were two games that really helped Nebraska and really hurt Penn State. And, IMHO, these two games put the icing on the cake for PSU's title hopes.

[gymman1031]

I am a Penn State fan. And the endings of these two games I am talking about still ring in my ears.

1. Colorado at Michigan-Of course, this game is most remembered for Kordell Stewart's Hail Mary to Michael Westbrook for a game winning-touchdown as time expired. Although Colorado and Michigan didn't play for the title, this game might well have figured HUGE in Nebraska winning the title and Penn State not winning it.

[gymman1031]

Don't forget that Penn State ended up beating Michigan and Nebraska ended up beating Colorado. Had Michigan beaten Colorado, Penn State's victory over Michigan would have looked more impressive and Nebraska's victory over Colorado would have looked less impressive.

2. Penn State at Indiana-Penn State was on fire and had just beaten Ohio State, 63-14. Indiana, on the other hand, was having a lousy season. So, it was natural for Penn State to maybe look ahead a bit.

[gymman1031]

Anyway, Indiana, with nothing to lose, came out fired up to play the spoiler. And, that they did. They played way above their heads for most of the game, while Penn State was flat. Nevertheless, Penn State had a 35-14 lead very late in the game, and victory was certain. Being the good sport that he is famous for being, JoePa pulled the starters. And, 99 out of 100 times, nothing would have happened. But Indiana scored two meaningless and garbage touchdowns.

[gymman1031]

One of those touchdowns was at the end of the game, and it was a Hail Mary. And the Hoosiers completed the two-point conversion attempt. So the final score was 35-29. Even in defeat, the Indiana players and fans were celebrating like they had just won the title. It was probably a thrill to have come close to a team like Penn State in-terms of the final score and knowing that they very likely had played the spoiler. And that they did, most likely!

[gymman1031]

After this game, Penn State fell to #2 in all the polls, and they finished there, too. And, although this was a blowout, the only thing that the voters could look at was the final score. They couldn't go back, look at the tape, and see that it really WAS a blowout.

Sorry to bring back bad memories. Whenever I get mad that Nebraska won it all instead of Penn State, it makes me feel better to know that these two fluke-like moments might have iced Penn States hopes.

[kimvaterra]

I hear you bro! I remember this season all too well myself. Nebraska got the nat'l championship over a more deserving PSU in my mind. This game against Illinois was probably my favorite college game of all time. I remember Simeon Rice mentioning how Kyle Brady is going to make him go back to the weight room to get bigger and stronger. Kyle roughed up those guys been a big dude and all.

[MVillani1985]

I think Penn State would have won definately, but it would have been a great game. Penn State would have been held to a season low point total, and Nebraska wouldn't have been able to get anything offensively going. Penn State probably would have beaten Nebraska 24-10.

[dpinzow]

That Indiana team had Trent Green at QB...they were no pushover.

The Big 10 was diesel in those days

[MVillani1985]

True, and that makes it even more signifficant that Penn State blew out Indiana. Most teams that year Penn State played, the starters were only in for the first 40 minutes, sometimes less.

But I'm still pissed that Penn State was punished for playing a "close game" with a 6-5 Indiana, yet Ohio State wasn't punished in 2006 for needing luck against a good, but not dynamite, Penn State and being played to the wire by a 2-10 Illinois.

[darastakid]

The offense scored 63 points against rival Ohio State and also managed one of the greatest comebacks in history (down 21 against an Illinois defense that featured Simeon Rice). In fact, the team would have won every game by 50 if Joe Pa hadn't always benched his starters halfway through the third quarter. The true measure of this team's greatness was never fulfilled because of Joe Pa's sportsmanship (make no mistake about it, Penn State would've beaten the '94 Huskers by at least 30).

[BassAssassin9]

That is because Ohio State is a beneficiary of the media hype machine...despite choking in big games.

[MVillani1985]

Also, notice how they weren't punished in 2006 for nearly losing to a 2-10 Indiana team, yet in 1994 Penn State was punished for not running up the score on an Indiana that was actually a good team that had Trent Green at QB that was only 6-5 because of a tough Big Ten. Penn State early in the year pounded Minnesota, the only bad team in the conference 56-3.