Penn State Series in 2027/2028

[corpjet]

This is the only way I would go to (not so) Happy Valley, I will need a bath upon exiting the stadium and town.

Geesh the things I do for my beloved Orange!

 

[Moontan]

I didn’t see the specific dates mentioned here, but I found these elsewhere:

• 4 Sep 2027 at PSU
• 9 Sep 2028 vs PSU

 

[Stern]

Who's on your list of "preferred" P5 teams?

Indiana?
Kansas?
Vandy?

That's a good start with those 3. Maryland, Illinois, Nebraska, Northwestern, Arizona, Colorado, and Washington.

All P5 programs we would have a favorable matchup against than Penn ST and probably will for the next decade or so.

 

[Chip]

I didn’t see the specific dates mentioned here, but I found these elsewhere:

• 4 Sep 2027 at PSU
• 9 Sep 2028 vs PSU

Nearly 20 years to the day since the last time Penn State will have been in the Dome.

 

[sutomcat]

I didn’t see the specific dates mentioned here, but I found these elsewhere:

• 4 Sep 2027 at PSU
• 9 Sep 2028 vs PSU

Dislike opening a season with a game at Penn State. We need to open every season with a home game, preferably against our FCS opponent.

The game in 2028 should be on the second week of the season. Like that a lot better.

Maybe we can do some flimflam like other ACC schools do and schedule a game on week 0 in 2027. That would be cool.

Updated the schedule. It should be the most up to date one on the Internet.

 

[kcsu]

Dislike opening a season with a game at Penn State. We need to open every season with a home game, preferably against our FCS opponent.

The game in 2028 should be on the second week of the season. Like that a lot better.

Maybe we can do some flimflam like other ACC schools do and schedule a game on week 0 in 2027. That would be cool.

Updated the schedule. It should be the most up to date one on the Internet.

As long as its their 1st game i dont mind as i believe it gives us the best chance to win.

 

[ORRange]

Not including Bowl games we are 1-14 in our last 15 OOC P5 games. Going back further we are 5-31 in our last 36. Oddly we are 4-1 in Bowl games vs P5 teams during that same span.

By HC:

Babers 0 Ws in 5 seasons (not counting 2020)
Shafer 0 Ws in 3 seasons
Marrone 3 Ws in 4 seasons
GRob 2 Ws in 4 seasons
Coach P 0 Ws in 1 season


Ws: at Missouri, Wake (OT), Northwestern, at Notre Dame, at Illinois

Ls: Rutgers, at Maryland, Notre Dame (YS), at LSU, Notre Dame (ML), LSU, Maryland, Notre Dame (ML), Penn State (ML), at Northwestern, Northwestern, USC (ML), at Minnesota, at USC, at Washington, BC, Minnesota, at Penn State, at Northwestern, Penn State, Washington, at Iowa, Illinois, at Wake, Iowa, UVA, at FSU, at Notre Dame, at Purdue, at UVA, FSU

I thought the record wasn't good but those numbers are Kansas like. Yikes.

 

[elimunelson]

That's a good start with those 3. Maryland, Illinois, Nebraska, Northwestern, Arizona, Colorado, and Washington.

All P5 programs we would have a favorable matchup against than Penn ST and probably will for the next decade or so.

I think holistically Syracuse (and other schools) need to put toothpaste back in the tube and schedule teams near them for attendance purposes more than anything. Penn St, who are a power, is a good team to have at the dome and on the road. Both fan bases can spend a day trip seeing the games.

We need to be in the business of scheduling Umass, HC, Army, Penn St, Uconn habitually. Those are our peers, very close for fans to come see and our geographical peers. This is a result of frankenstein conferences where our conference teams are NC State and Clemson (still weird to me)

 

[HRE Otto IV]

I think holistically Syracuse (and other schools) need to put toothpaste back in the tube and schedule teams near them for attendance purposes more than anything. Penn St, who are a power, is a good team to have at the dome and on the road. Both fan bases can spend a day trip seeing the games.

We need to be in the business of scheduling Umass, HC, Army, Penn St, Uconn habitually. Those are our peers, very close for fans to come see and our geographical peers. This is a result of frankenstein conferences where our conference teams are NC State and Clemson (still weird to me)

I think what you say is right, but I also get what Stern is saying. We can do both. If Penn State is too hard for some people, then we can stick to local P5s like Rutgers, Maryland, and West Virginia. Maybe add in Northwestern and Vandy for the road trips.

Washington is pretty good usually and cross country. Penn State is safer. Nebraska will bounce back so no point in adding them. Arizona and Colorado are long trips. We should try to keep things local.

 

[elimunelson]

I think what you say is right, but I also get what Stern is saying. We can do both. If Penn State is too hard for some people, then we can stick to local P5s like Rutgers, Maryland, and West Virginia. Maybe add in Northwestern and Vandy for the road trips.

Washington is pretty good usually and cross country. Penn State is safer. Nebraska will bounce back so no point in adding them. Arizona and Colorado are long trips. We should try to keep things local.

yeah I'm not for scheduling PSU EVERY year. That would be foolish. Sprinkle in the Rutgers/Maryland/WVU. I mean ultimately we're getting to a place where the schedule will look East Indy like again. That's my hope.

My bigger point is I don't see the upside of scheduling a random Pac 10 team vs a team closer to us.

 

[Stern]

My bigger point is I don't see the upside of scheduling a random Pac 10 team vs a team closer to us.

"FOR THE BRAND"...help expand the Syracuse brand on the west coast and maybe get a game vs an opponent on equal footing we have a better chance to win.

 

[sutomcat]

I hope that by the time the game is played, the build out of I-99 is complete and one can drive from Syracuse to State College without getting on any of those lovely Pennsylvania highways.

Route 15 and Route 220 are not awful but if they get replaced with a real interstate, I bet the time to get to State College from Syracuse goes from 4 hours to 3.5.

That would be nice.

I think it might make the drive between Syracuse and Pittsburgh a bit shorter as well.

If McDonalds would add a rule making it illegal for their employees to wore PSU gear (this should actually be illegal everywhere), then me and storange would have no complaints left.

Except for the seat widths, leg room and wasps in that hellhole of a stadium. And the cow dung in the visitor 'parking lot'. Ahh, forget it, we are always going to have things to complain about going to that place.

It is the most unhappy valley on the planet.

 

[GeauxSU]

I'll be unfurling my 25 ft long "Joe Knew" banner from the railing of 310

 

[SU68]

Really? Like who?

UConn, Rutgirls are the two I remember. There are others though. Maybe nBE schools.

 

[Chip]

UConn, Rutgirls are the two I remember. There are others though. Maybe nBE schools.

Not sure I buy it, but either way, they both molest collies.

 

[SU94]

Dislike opening a season with a game at Penn State. We need to open every season with a home game, preferably against our FCS opponent.

The game in 2028 should be on the second week of the season. Like that a lot better.

Maybe we can do some flimflam like other ACC schools do and schedule a game on week 0 in 2027. That would be cool.

Updated the schedule. It should be the most up to date one on the Internet.

Not to be an alarmist, but conceivably, with the anticipated CFB upheaval coming in the 2030s, this could be SU's last home-and-home with PSU.

Also, I am anxiously awaiting the day when games against FCS are not part of Division I scheduling.

We don't see the Washington Nationals playing the Rochester Red Wings, do we? To me, it is a silly concept. -- (And yes, I am well aware that this somehow helps fund athletics at the smaller schools)

 

[HOFCeluck]

@@$ this. Penn State shouldn’t even have a program.

 

[OttoMets]

I hope that by the time the game is played, the build out of I-99 is complete and one can drive from Syracuse to State College without getting on any of those lovely Pennsylvania highways.

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It more or less is, though I think it's not entirely signed I-99 yet it is definitely a limited access freeway posted at 70mph from the state line all the way to Williamsport. There's a little slowdown with a couple lights and intersections between Williamsport and Salona, but it's still high speed. And then south of I-80 it's all interstate again.

That being said, I hate the Penn State NAMBLA Lions.

 

[sutomcat]

It more or less is, though I think it's not entirely signed I-99 yet it is definitely a limited access freeway posted at 70mph from the state line all the way to Williamsport. There's a little slowdown with a couple lights and intersections between Williamsport and Salona, but it's still high speed. And then south of I-80 it's all interstate again.

That being said, I hate the Penn State NAMBLA Lions.

Good. Route 15 was already in the process of being bring up to interstate highway standards the last time we played Penn State at Beaver.

The bleacher seats at Beaver are reportedly 13 inches wide.

I am not sure if that is correct but I know when SU last played there in 2009, the seat widths for our seats were ridiculously narrow. No leg room either. They were so desperate to get their capacity high that they had no issue with making their stadium the most uncomfortable and awful venue in the country.

How Penn State of them.

I hope that soon they decide money isn't the only thing football is played for and make some changes to improve the fan experience. I would feel sorry for fans who have to go to that stadium regularly except they are Penn State fans. It is quite fitting for them to be stuck with that venue.

 

[OttoMets]

Good. Route 15 was already in the process of being bring up to interstate highway standards the last time we played Penn State at Beaver.

The bleacher seats at Beaver are reportedly 13 inches wide.
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Which unfortunately is half the width of their average fan.

 

[shandeezy7]

Good. Route 15 was already in the process of being bring up to interstate highway standards the last time we played Penn State at Beaver.

The bleacher seats at Beaver are reportedly 13 inches wide.

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I am not sure if that is correct but I know when SU last played there in 2009, the seat widths for our seats were ridiculously narrow. No leg room either. They were so desperate to get their capacity high that they had no issue with making their stadium the most uncomfortable and awful venue in the country.

How Penn State of them.

I hope that soon they decide money isn't the only thing football is played for and make some changes to improve the fan experience. I would feel sorry for fans who have to go to that stadium regularly except they are Penn State fans. It is quite fitting for them to be stuck with that venue.

Pot meet kettle. The dome bleacher seats can't be more that 15 or 16 inches wide.

 

[Killdozer]

I wish Penn St was playing in the Dome first game because I can see them dropping the return game after SU destroys them at Beaver Stadium ....

 

[JoeSU]

At least Wildhack managed a home & home, and not a 2:1 or Happy Valley/MetLife deal.

 

[Stevenson]

Not a huge fan of scheduling automatic Ls

 

[sutomcat]

Pot meet kettle. The dome bleacher seats can't be more that 15 or 16 inches wide.

That can and are. They are 18 inches wide. If you sat in both stadiums, you would know.

There is no comparison.