Penn State Announces 'White Out' Against Ohio State

By D.J. Byrnes on April 19, 2016 at 4:26 pm
Penn State to white out Ohio State in 2016.
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The Nittany Lions are back at it again.

Penn State announced Tuesday a school-sponsored white out of Beaver Stadium when the Ohio State Buckeyes roll into Happy Valley on Oct. 22.

Ohio State is 2-0 under Urban Meyer in white out games in Happy Valley, including 2014's thrilling come-from-ahead double-overtime victory that ended with Joey Bosa using the broken corpse of PSU RB Akeel Lynch as a battering ram for a game-ending sack of Christian Hackenberg. 

White outs started as a student tradition at Penn State in 2004 before engulfing the entire 106,000-seat stadium in 2014. According to PSU records, Ohio State is 2-1 in such games.

Penn State White Out History
Date Opponent Type Result
Oct. 9, 2004 PURDUE Student Section L, 20–13
Oct. 8, 2005 OHIO STATE Student Section W, 17–10
Oct. 14, 2006 MICHIGAN Student Section L, 17–10
Sept. 8, 2007 NOTRE DAME Full Stadium W, 31–10
Sept. 27, 2008 ILLINOIS Full Stadium W, 38–24
Sept. 26, 2009 IOWA Full Stadium L, 21–10
Oct. 30, 2010 MICHIGAN Student Section W, 41–31
Sept. 10, 2011 ALABAMA Full Stadium L, 27–11
Oct. 27, 2012 OHIO STATE Full Stadium L, 35–23
Oct. 12, 2013 MICHIGAN Full Stadium W, 43–40 (4OT)
Oct. 25, 2014 OHIO STATE Full Stadium L, 31–24 (2OT)
Nov. 21, 2015 MICHIGAN Full Stadium L, 28–16

For Ohio State, the trip to Happy Valley will come on the back of a trip Madison, Wisconsin, to take on the Badgers in Camp Randall Stadium. Penn State is off the week prior to playing the Buckeyes.

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