Making homecoming plans may be a little easier now.
The Nittany Lions' homecoming clash with Minnesota on Oct. 17 in Beaver Stadium will begin at 3:30 p.m. and will be an ABC regional telecast. ESPN or ESPN2 will air it to the rest of the nation.
This is the third announced game time of the upcoming season. The Sept. 26 Big Ten opener against Iowa in Beaver Stadium will begin at 8 p.m. and will air on either ABC or ESPN. And the Oct. 31 contest at Northwestern will start at 4:30 p.m. ET and will be shown on ESPN or ESPN2.
Then there's this: Doesn't it seem like it's been at least five years since the Lions played Minnesota?
Actually, the last meeting was in 2006 in the Metrodome, ending in that crazy 28-27 overtime game with a Minnesota extra point banging off an upright. The teams haven't played in Beaver Stadium since Michael Robinson led a most dominating effort that pushed the Lions to 5-0 on the season on the way to the Orange Bowl.
And the two teams actually did meet one other time for Penn State's homecoming. That would be in 1997 when it took an act of God (being a late Gopher fumble near their own goal line) that helped the Lions avoid the upset and stay unbeaten.
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