Player was Dallas Clark of Iowa
Team was 2001 Miami, they just manhandled us.
Team was 2001 Miami, they just manhandled us.
Who was the best opposing player/team you remember watching play vs Penn State
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Yep, me too. 1984. My second ever PSU game in person. Flutie looked like a little kid out on the field...then he threw the ball. Wow! Just a great competitor and very gifted QB.
bwifan
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Miami 2001... Not sure how many nfl draft picks were on that team they were absolutely loaded with nfl talent. They literally smoked us could of hung 50+ on us at home if they wanted. If I remember right it was 30-0 at half time and we never went back in after half time from the tailgate. ** Have to go with Randle El for a player he had no one else on that team and yet was impossible to tackle and stop either throwing or running.
Here are some old timers who just killed us!
QB: Roger Staubach
RB: Floyd Little
DL: Bubba Smith
QB: Roger Staubach
RB: Floyd Little
DL: Bubba Smith
Although he didn't kill us with losses I'd add Larry Csonka to your list. What a handful he was.
Not sexy picks but I have particularly distasteful memories of T.J. Duckett and Dan Bernstein.
Drew Brees was an awesome QB and was one of the best in the B10 during that era but he never beat Penn State.
im having a hard time deciding which team was the best I seen at beaver stadium -- the 2001 Miami team or the ND team with Ricky Watters and the Rocket. I think the QB was named Rice. I think that was the 1988 Irish team.
Correct. Thanks to Macklin running off the sidelines during a play to tackle our WR running for a TD and then the back judge swallowing his whistle as Randal Lane is blantantly held in the endzone with 20 seconds left in the 1999 game. We had a great thread reliving Penn State mystery calls a couple of weeks ago on our board. Check it out. You guys certainly don't hold a monopoly on bad officiating.
I agree! Bubba stands out one of the best that ever played against Penn State. That Michigan State team came into Beaver Stadium and dominated Penn State. One of the best opposing teams I ever saw play at Penn State.
Thinking of that 2001 Miami game. Shockey got to be mentioned. They could of thrown to him every down and we wouldn't of been able to stop him.
Didn't Mendenhall go off on us a few times?
Didn't Mendenhall go off on us a few times?
bwifan
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Did a quick search and look at these players from that Miami 2001 team. May be the greatest team based on talent I have ever seen assembled in college.... Running back alone was insane! Let alone every other position...
Among the numerous stars on the 2001 Miami squad were: quarterback Ken Dorsey; running backs Clinton Portis, Willis McGahee, Najeh Davenport, and Frank Gore; tight end Jeremy Shockey; wide receiver Andre Johnson, and Kevin Beard; tackles Bryant McKinnie and Joaquin Gonzalez; defensive linemen Jerome McDougle, William Joseph, and Vince Wilfork; linebackers Jonathan Vilma and D.J. Williams; and defensive backs Ed Reed, Mike Rumph, and Phillip Buchanon. Additional contributors included future stars Kellen Winslow II, Sean Taylor, Antrel Rolle, Vernon Carey, and Rocky McIntosh. In all, an extraordinary 17 players from the 2001 Miami football team were drafted in the first-round of the NFL Draft (5 in the 2002 NFL Draft: Buchanon, McKinnie, Reed, Rumph, and Shockey; 4 in 2003: Johnson, Joseph, McDougle, and McGahee; 6 in 2004: Carey, Taylor, Vilma, Wilfork, Williams, and Winslow; 1 in 2005: Rolle; and 1 in 2006: Kelly Jennings).
Overall, 38 members of the team would be selected in the NFL Draft. As of 2013, they had earned an astonishing 43 trips to the Pro Bowl: Ed Reed (9), Andre Johnson (7), Frank Gore (5), Vince Wilfork (5), Jeremy Shockey (4), Jonathan Vilma (3), Willis McGahee (2), Chris Myers (2), Clinton Portis (2), Antrel Rolle (2), Sean Taylor (2), Bryant McKinnie (1), and Kellen Winslow II (1). In addition, Vilma, Shockey, Wilfork, Josephand Reed have won the Super Bowl. It has been estimated that the 2001 Hurricanes would cost nearly $120 million as an NFL team as early as 2009.
So many great Rutgers teams. So many great Rutgers players. I just cannot pick one of either.
Derrick Thomas, 1988 at Birmingham, 8 solo tackles, 3 sacks and a safety on Tony Sacca. Not to mention that he disrupted almost every play that day.
Best team - I agree. 2001 Miami was as good as advertised.
How about Pinkett ("pinky" as I would refer to him during the games). I remember him putting 200+ on us during a home game we won when Rogers Alexander stopped him cold on a 4th down play.
Bettis caught a swing pass over the middle for a short touchdown to give ND their 4th win in the 10 year series in the 10th game.
Flutie is a solid pick. He put up crazy numbers against us.
I also remember the bowl game when Zach Thomas played a phenomenal game against us. I remember wishing the Steelers had gone after him in the next draft.
Dorset had a pretty nice game against us in 1976. Didn't do much in the first half, but they moved him to FB in the 2nd half and he broke loose a few times.
Maybe if he had gotten to Kevin Thompson just a bit earlier on the crucial play.How about Dan Morgan?
Derrick Thomas was unstoppable in that game. He is my pick too.
