Ohio State vs. Penn State

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Ohio State’s biggest win2013: Ohio State 63, Penn State 14by 49 points
2. Penn State’s biggest win1994: Penn State 63, Ohio State 14by 49 points
3. Upset2016: Penn State 24, Ohio State 21Penn State had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1956: Penn State 7, Ohio State 6Penn State had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1964: Penn State 27, Ohio State 0Penn State had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown2024: Ohio State 20, Penn State 13No. 4 Ohio State at No. 3 Penn State
7. Ranked showdown1996: Ohio State 38, Penn State 7No. 4 Penn State at No. 3 Ohio State
8. Ranked showdown2017: Ohio State 39, Penn State 38No. 2 Penn State at No. 6 Ohio State

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Ohio State’s side (Hayes 0–⁠3 against Engle). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

• 

  1956 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 22, 1956

• 

  1963 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 12, 1963

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game 13 times: 2024, 2023, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2010, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 1998, 1996.

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of its locations (CC BY-SA). Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game is listed as played on the field; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.

• Ohio State vs. Michigan121 meetings, Ohio State 53–⁠62–⁠6
• Ohio State vs. Illinois105 meetings, Ohio State 71–⁠30–⁠4
• Ohio State vs. Indiana100 meetings, Ohio State 82–⁠13–⁠5
• Ohio State vs. Wisconsin87 meetings, Ohio State 64–⁠18–⁠5
• Penn State vs. Pittsburgh99 meetings, Penn State 52–⁠43–⁠4
• Penn State vs. Syracuse71 meetings, Penn State 43–⁠23–⁠5
• Penn State vs. West Virginia61 meetings, Penn State 50–⁠9–⁠2
• Penn State vs. Maryland48 meetings, Penn State 44–⁠3–⁠1