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As a Penn State fan, what is your attended bowl record & major bowl record?

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What is your attended PSU record for the major bowls being: the Rose, Sugar, Orange, Cotton and Fiesta.

And for all PSU bowl games you have attended?

I look up to all of you as I am only
0-1 Taxslayer (Gator bowl?)
thus far.....
 
I'm a bad luck charm. Sitting this one out for ya'll. 2-5.
 
Two bowl games: 1994 Rose Bowl (1-0). I also went to the Citrus Bowl between tOSU and BYU (with Detmer) many moons ago. My brother and I like football and I got fairly inexpensive tickets. This was before PSU was in the Big Ten, so there wasn't that much of a rivalry then.
 
1986 Orange Bowl where we lost to Oklahoma 25-10. I also watched us lose to Clemson in the Citrus Bowl.
 
You may want to take up a donation to get me to Pasadena ... I'm undefeated in attended Bowl games:

1. 1972 Cotton Bowl -- 30-6 over Texas
2. 1972 Sugar Bowl -- forfeited by Oklahoma (yes, unlike Joe, I accepted the forfeit ;))
3. 1975 Cotton Bowl -- 41-20 over Baylor
4. 1997 Fiesta Bowl -- 38-15 over Texas
5. 1999 Alamo Bowl -- 24-0 over Texas A&M
6. 2007 Alamo Bowl -- 24-17 over Texas A&M

In fact, Penn State never lost a football game in the state of Texas when coached by Joe Paterno ... and I attended every one of them.

I was not able to go to the 2012 Ticket City Bowl.
 
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What is your attended PSU record for the major bowls being: the Rose, Sugar, Orange, Cotton and Fiesta.

And for all PSU bowl games you have attended?

I look up to all of you as I am only
0-1 Taxslayer (Gator bowl?)
thus far.....

0-6.

Thats gonna change, though. Just bought tickets to the Rose Bowl.

USC 17
Penn St 52

MARK IT DOWN!
 
4-1 in Major Bowls 5-1 overall
3 Fiesta Bowl wins - USC, Miami, Tenn
1 Holiday Bowl win- BYU
1 Rose Bowl win - Oregon
1 Rose Bowl loss - USC
 
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I'm 8-5 overall. First bowl was '70 Orange Bowl. Went to bowls after the '73, '90 and '94 seasons. Been to every one since the '05 season.
 
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1-1 Major

Jan. 3, 2006 / Win over FSU in Orange Bowl

Jan. 1, 2009 / Loss to USC in Rose Bowl

1-0 in Minor

Jan. 1, 1996 / Win over Auburn in Outback Bowl
 
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1975 Sugar Bowl - L
1988 Citrus Bowl - L
1990 Blockbuster Bowl - L
1992 Blockbuster Bowl - L
1994 Citrus Bowl - W
1996 Outback Bowl - W
2006 Orange Bowl - W

88 Citrus Bowl made even more miserable due to it being a Hunter Thompson-like trip on no sleep and w/ no sunglasses.
 
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First one saw us lose to the Bear then came back to see us beat Georgia for initial championship. Sugar Bowl 1 - 1.

Watched as Keith Jackson broke my heart in 86 Orange Bowl and came back to watch Joe's second Big10 championship team win the 2006 Orange Bowl against Bobby's Seminoles.
Orange 1 - 1.

We lost to Bobby in the Blockbuster Bowl.

1995 Rose Bowl and the 99 Alamo Bowl.

Been to a total of 7, 4 - 3.
 
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What is your attended PSU record for the major bowls being: the Rose, Sugar, Orange, Cotton and Fiesta.

And for all PSU bowl games you have attended?

I look up to all of you as I am only
0-1 Taxslayer (Gator bowl?)
thus far.....

4-1. 95 Rose, 96 Outback in a Monsoon, 2006 Orange, 2007 Outback

Loss was in 2003 Citrus/Capital One
 
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6-4 (wins over Kansas in Orange Bowl, Texas and Miami in Fiesta, Georgia in Sugar, Auburn in Outback, Oregon in Rose; losses to Oklahoma in Orange, Auburn and Florida in Capital One, Alabama in '79 Sugar).
 
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I count Dublin as a Bowl game so I'm 5-5 with an asterik looking to even the score with USC from that 2009 L:

1995 Rose Bowl W
1998 Citrus Bowl L
2003 Capital One Bowl L
2006 Orange Bowl W
2007 Alamo Bowl W
2009 Rose Bowl L
2012 Ticket City Bowl L
2014 Dublin*. W
2014 Pinstripe Bowl W
2016 Tax Slayer Bowl L
2017 Rose Bowl ?????
 
I count Dublin as a Bowl game so I'm 5-5 with an asterik looking to even the score with USC from that 2009 L:

1995 Rose Bowl W
1998 Citrus Bowl L
2003 Capital One Bowl L
2006 Orange Bowl W
2007 Alamo Bowl W
2009 Rose Bowl L
2012 Ticket City Bowl L
2014 Dublin*. W
2014 Pinstripe Bowl W
2016 Tax Slayer Bowl L
2017 Rose Bowl ?????
 
3-0 auburn in outback; a and m in alamo, oregon in rose, and wasn't the win against USC back with Enis referred to as a "preseason" bowl?
 
1-0 2005 Orange Bowl, 2-1 overall with the Pinstripe (fantastic time) and Tax Slayer (Jacksonville sucked).

Soon to make it a cool .750 winning percentage.
 
What is your attended PSU record for the major bowls being: the Rose, Sugar, Orange, Cotton and Fiesta.

And for all PSU bowl games you have attended?

I look up to all of you as I am only
0-1 Taxslayer (Gator bowl?)
thus far.....
1 - 0, Orange Bowl vs. LSU. 16 - 9 great catch by Chuck Herd from Tom Shuman. Excellent Disney Half Time Show
 
Well I am too damn old to remover dates but here we go
70 orange bowl -w
72 sugar -L ( w with a forfeit )
Fiesta when they shut down Marcus Allen -W
86 Orange - L
94 Rose - W
Citrus loss to Auburn- L
Outback win over Auburn -W
06 Blockbuster win over FSU
08 Rose - L
5-4 overall
 
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What is your attended PSU record for the major bowls being: the Rose, Sugar, Orange, Cotton and Fiesta.

And for all PSU bowl games you have attended?

I look up to all of you as I am only
0-1 Taxslayer (Gator bowl?)
thus far.....

3-1

Capital One Bowl 2003 - Lost to Auburn
Orange Bowl 2006 - Beat Florida State
Outback Bowl 2007 - Beat Tennessee
Capital One Bowl 2009 - Beat LSU
 
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2-0 (1-0 Major) and hoping it is 3-0 in a few days. Saw PSU beat Auburn in the Outback bowl back in the mid/late 90s and then headed back down to Florida for the 2006 Orange Bowl. Go State!
 
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