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Minnesota will be the eighth different visiting school to be given the white out treatment and the fourth Big Ten team in total. Penn State’s home game against Minnesota is already locked into a primetime slot on the broadcast schedule for the Big Ten, although the specific network that will air the game has yet to be determined. Penn State officially announced it will hold its white out game against Minnesota Golden Gophers on Oct. “We’ve got a lot of games to go until then, but I know that’s something everybody’s looking forward to.Penn State started the month of June off by confirming details for its 2022 white out game on the football schedule, and it’s the one game that some fans seemed to fear. “I know our players are gonna be excited,” Fleck added. So for a chance to play for the Victory Bell in the White Out is going to be really exciting.” So now that rivalry (has) started to come back - with (the Governors’) Victory Bell, that’s what makes it exciting. To be a part of that football game was tremendous. “You look at the 2019 win against Penn State at home - where the fans stormed the field - and that was one of the top games of the college football season and one of the biggest upsets.

‘We've come a long way as a program and we're continuing to build on it under Coach Fleck,” he said. Sori-Marin believes it all may lead to more recognition of the nearly forgotten trophy that goes to the winner of each game between PSU and the Gophers - the Governors’ Victory Bell. Of course, considering the way Minnesota fans and players celebrated after beating Penn State back in 2019, the Nittany Lions and 107,000 of their most ardent supporters are probably looking forward to it, as well. But definitely excited for the opportunity to be there - especially to experience that game. Offensive lineman John Michael Schmitz insisted, “We’re just not gonna let the circumstances dictate our behavior during that game. … Because you get to experience that, but you also get to coach in it, which you dream of things like that.” “You get to kill two birds with one stone.

“Because I’ve never been to Happy Valley for a game, we said, ‘How cool would it be to, one, go to Penn State but, two, be in the White Out game?’” he recalled. So when the 2022 schedule came out, he and his wife Heather dared to wonder if the Gophers might be dubbed PSU’s White Out opponent. Fleck took over the program in 2017, and he has never coached or even seen a game in Beaver Stadium. So I’m excited I’m going to get a chance to experience that this year.” All those fans dressed in white - it’s gotta be crazy. I always used to see that game and think, ‘Wow, that’s crazy. I remember when I was younger, I made a goal for myself to play in Happy Valley one time for a Penn State White Out game. “That’s one of the most storied games in all of college football. “That’s awesome,” defensive back Tyler Nubin added. And it's going to be a moment and memory that I'm going to remember the rest of my life.” To have the opportunity to play in that game, it’s going to be truly special. “Those are bucket-list type games that everybody dreams of growing up. “The White Out, growing up as a college football fan as a little kid, those were one of the games that you always tuned in to watch,” linebacker Mariano Sori-Marin said at Big Ten Media Days here Tuesday. 4 PSU 31-26 in Minneapolis in 2019 and the first time they’ve played at University Park since a 29-26 PSU overtime win in 2016. It will mark the first matchup between the two teams since the No. 22 for a game that will kick off at 7:30 p.m. But the Golden Gophers sure liked the news, and are clearly honored to be a part one of college football’s greatest spectacles. INDIANAPOLIS - Penn State fans may not have been thrilled when it was announced that Minnesota had been tabbed as the Nittany Lions’ 2022 White Out opponent, as many expressed a desire to see a certain traditional power filling that role.