When the No. 9 Ohio State Buckeyes (8-0) travel to State College for their Saturday night matchup with the Penn State Nittany Lions (5-2), there will be more than just a motivated team anticipating their arrival.
Over 100,000 blue-and-white clad fans will form a waiting monster—all huddled closely together inside the cement walls of Beaver Stadium. Those walls unify every shout, jeer and scream into one singular shotgun blast of hysteria that will reverberate through the helmets of every Ohio State football player for three straight hours.
That monster is relentless. That monster feeds off the weakness of its opponent.
That monster has taken Ohio State down before.
In 2005, the sixth ranked Buckeyes made a similar trip to Happy Valley for a prime-time matchup with the undefeated (5-0) Nittany Lions. Most expected Ohio State to control the game with its shutdown defense and the playmaking ability of Troy Smith, Ted Ginn Jr. and Santonio Holmes on offense.
Penn State had…
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