Psu Rivals (2024)

FAQs

Who is Penn State's football rivalry? ›

Penn State has thoroughly dominated the series, leading 42–3–1, with their longest winning streak being 24 games from 1962 to 1988. Penn State and Maryland met in briefly interrupted stretches between 1917 and 1993, with a near-consecutive run played all but three years (1976, 1981, and 1983) between 1960 and 1993.

Penn State joined the Big Ten in 1991, after being a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference from 1976-79 and 1982-91.

Penn State University Park has a variety of Division 1 athletics and is as a member of the Big Ten Conference.

Since the resumption of the series Penn has won 42 games and Princeton has won 40 games with one game ending in a tie (1942). Since the Ivy League was officially formed in 1956 Princeton has won 34 games and Penn has won 32 games. Penn and Princeton have played 114 times since 1876.

No wonder Michigan-Ohio State is at the top of the list of the biggest college football rivalries.

Starting in the 2024-25 season, the Big Ten will have 18 teams after the four west coast additions.

The athletic director of the team is Sandy Barbour whereas the head coach is James Franklin. The record of the team is 893-393-42, and the bowl record is 30-18-2. The team has 2 claimed national titles, five unclaimed national titles, five conference titles, and 2 division titles.

Often ranked as a top thirty research university, our quality is reflected in Penn State's worldwide standings as a leader in research, education, and community. Our record-breaking research expenditures exceed $1.239B, ranking 12 disciplines in the top 10 by the National Science Foundation.

Penn State is not an Ivy League school. The Ivy League is a group of eight schools: Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.

Is Penn State hard to get into? ›

The acceptance rate at Penn State is 55.2%.

This means the school is moderately selective.

Penn State is tied at 31st on the U.S. News & World Report's 2022-2023 "Top Public Schools" rankings and tied at 77th among "National Universities." QS World University Rankings ranked the university at No. 93 internationally and No.

The Ohio State–Penn State football rivalry is an American college football match between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Penn State Nittany Lions. Ohio State leads the series 24–14.

The Michigan–Penn State football rivalry is an American college football game between the Wolverines of the University of Michigan and the Nittany Lions of Pennsylvania State University. Michigan leads the series 17–10.

The Cornell–Penn football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Cornell Big Red and Penn Quakers.

The Alabama–Penn State football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Alabama Crimson Tide football team of the University of Alabama and Penn State Nittany Lions football team of Pennsylvania State University.