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The 1985 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season. [1] The team was coached by Joe Paterno and played its home games in Beaver Stadium in University Park , Pennsylvania.
The first contest, held on August 29, 1983, was the first regular-season college football game to be played in the month of August. [1] The game featured the defending national champions Penn State Nittany Lions and the pre-season No. 1 ranked team, the Nebraska Cornhuskers .
No. 3 Penn State defeated Boston College 16–12, but No. 4 Michigan had to settle for a 3–3 tie against Illinois. No. 5 Nebraska won 41–3 at Kansas State. No. 7 Air Force moved up with a 31–10 victory over San Diego State, becoming the first service academy in two decades to be ranked in the top five: No. 1 Florida, No. 2 Penn State, No ...
The Nittany Lions entered the year with lofty expectations, with a preseason No. 9 ranking in the US LBM Coaches Poll and bolstered by the promise of a 12-team College Football Playoff and Big Ten ...
Penn State leads the all-time series with Rutgers 31-2. The Nittany Lions won last season’s meeting 55-10 at Beaver Stadium. The Scarlet Knights last beat Penn State on Sept. 24, 1988, in a 21 ...
(WHTM) — The Big Ten Conference released Penn State’s 2025 football schedule. Penn State will begin the season against Nevada, followed by matchups with FIU, Villanova, Oregon, UCLA ...
The 1986 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University as an independent during the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by 21st-year head coach Joe Paterno , the Nittany Lions compiled a record of 12–0.
Until 1893, Penn State teams participated in sporting events on Old Main lawn, a large grassy area in front of the primary classroom building of the time. Beaver Field, a 500-seat structure located behind the current site of the Osmond Building, was the first permanent home for Penn State's football team, and the first game played there was a Penn State victory over Western University of ...