Ten Years Later: Remembering an Epic Night in Beaver Stadium

Oct. 8, 2015UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Ten years have passed since an epic night in Penn State lore. Few environments will ever compare to the one inside Beaver Stadium on Oct. 8, 2005 when the unbeaten and 16th-ranked Nittany Lions battled the sixth-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes in a primetime tilt of Big Ten heavyweights. Having knocked off Northwestern in dramatic fashion two weeks prior, the Nittany Lions entered the Ohio State game on the heels of a 44-14 rout of Minnesota. The Buckeyes came in with one blemish on their record following a narrow 25-22 setback to eventual national champion Texas. ESPN College Gameday set the stage outside of Beaver Stadium on what proved to be a special Saturday in Happy Valley. Chilly, damp conditions under the lights proved to be the perfect setting for a slugfest between two of the conference’s best defenses. The Buckeyes got on the board first with a 30-yard field goal from Josh Huston in the first frame, but the Nittany Lions answered with a big second quarter. Freshman Derrick Williams capped off a nine-play, 74-yard drive with a 13-yard touchdown run on an option play with quarterback Michael Robinson to put the Nittany Lions on top by a score of 7-3. …

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