We are in State College, Pennsylvania for the Ohio State vs. Penn State Big Ten football matchup. Ohio State is ranked number one in the country for College Football and Penn State is ranked number twenty-five. We arrived late Thursday after leaving New Hampshire around 9:45 AM and arrived at Penn State about 5:15 PM. We are staying with friends of ours who are big Penn State football fans and they invited us down for the festivities. We are camped out in a huge field across from the stadium. There are roughly seven hundred campers around us and it is “PARTY CITY”.

It has been a great sports week as our beloved Boston Red Sox have won the first three games of The World Series and the Boston College football team is ranked number two in the country defeated Virginia Tech. I can’t believe Boston College pulled that game out as they were down 10-0 with less than 3 minutes left in the game. I guess I could say Virginia Tech blew the game as they went into a prevent defense and let Boston College march down the field and score a touchdown. Then when BC kicked off they kicked it onside and BC recovered the ball and marched in again to score the winning touchdown and defeat VT 14-10 what a thrilling victory.

 
The atmosphere here in State College, PA is infectious as all you can see is everyone wearing their Penn State colors of blue and white and every once in awhile you will see a little red and grey for Ohio State. I wore my # 54 New England Patriots shirt of Tedy Bruschi one day and my 2004 Boston Red Sox World Series pull over sweatshirt. I got a lot of high 5's and compliments wearing that sweatshirt as we walked around the field we were camping at. 

Here I am standing in front of Beaver Stadium where Penn State plays. This is a statue of Joe Paterno that they have built in front of the stadium in his honor. He has been Penn State’s head coach for 41 years and he is an icon there. We also drove by his house which is a modest contemporary style home in a nice neighborhood.  It is nothing over extravagant as it is just an ordinary home. As a kid I used to root for Penn State but this is my second college football game I have ever attended. Along time ago I went to a Minnesota Golden Gopher game and they were crushed that game but I can’t remember who they played.

Last night was an awesome night as the student body and most of the regular fans and alumni were wearing white and they call it “a white out”. Penn State took the lead early and the fans started cheering so loud and the stands were actually moving from the pounding of everyone's feet. The stadium was deafening. The noise and ruckus was an experience we have never seen before and I felt like a kid again. The announced attendance was just over 110,000. 

Go Penn State was our cheer. If they had beaten Ohio State then just maybe the Boston College Eagles would have catapulted to number one in the country.

Penn State got mauled as Ohio State was just too much for Penn State to handle. Penn State couldn't play defense and Ohio State did a great job at scoring at will as they defeated Penn State 37-17 .