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This is a list of seasons completed by the Penn State Nittany Lions football team of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Since the team's creation in 1887, the Nittany Lions have participated in 1,368 officially sanctioned games, including 52 bowl games.
New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien was hired as the 15th head football coach at Penn State, taking over the Nittany Lions football program in January 2012. [39] Early in O'Brien's tenure, the NCAA sanctioned Penn State with a four-season postseason ban and a loss of 40 scholarships due to the child sex abuse scandal. [40]
0–9. 1881 Penn State football team; 1887 Penn State football team; 1888 Penn State football team; 1889 Penn State football team; 1890 Penn State football team
College Football Playoff: No. 6 Penn State moves on to semifinals with 31-14 Fiesta Bowl win over No. 3 Boise State ... Sanders set his record with 11 regular-season games in 1988 and unofficially ...
2021: No. 5 Ohio State 33, No. 20 Penn State 24. 2022: No. 2 Ohio State 44, No. 13 Penn State 31. 2023: No. 3 Ohio State 20, No. 7 Penn State 12. James Franklin record at Ohio State vs ranked ...
The Nittany Lions hold a 17–8–1 record in the major bowls (Rose, Orange, Sugar, Fiesta, Peach, and Cotton). Coach Joe Paterno was responsible for most of these bids and victories, compiling more wins, 24, and appearances, 37, than any other coach in college football history, with a bowl record of 24–12–1 (.662). Paterno also had a ...
Although Penn State began competing in intercollegiate football in 1887, [1] the school's official record book considers the "modern era" to have begun in 1970. Records from before this year are often incomplete and inconsistent, and they are generally not included in these lists. These lists are dominated by more recent players for several ...
Michigan finished the season with a 3–9 record which represented the program's first losing season since 1967 and the most losses for a season in the history of the program. Penn State had a second straight blowout win in 2009, as quarterback Daryll Clark threw three touchdown passes to wide receiver Graham Zug to lead the Nittany Lions to a ...