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[QUOTE="ECE '76, post: 4362508, member: 8656"]
All these comments that Purdue gifted SU the game... have me annoyed.   If you watch sports for long enough, you'll come to realize that half of winning is being good enough to simply let the other team beat itself, if it wants to.  SU lost every game to Penn State from 1971 through 1986.  But not all of those game were blowouts.  Often SU was competitive, but lost because of a turnover or some other small number of mishaps in the game that made the difference between winning and losing.  A lot of JoePa's career wins were accumulated by simply letting the other team fold at some point in the game.

The other reason I don't agree that Purdue gave the game to us, SU needed to score a TD.  It was not handed to them.  SU took the the win, IMHO.  Shrader has 2 clutch game winning passes in his short time as SU starter.  It wasn't long ago that we saw SU spike the ball with the game time running out vs BC with a winning TD needed.  Too bad it was on 4th down . :(
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