1982 #2 Nebraska @ #8 Penn State No Huddle

[@IronForged]

I so remember this game as a 16 year old central PA kid. My dad was so mad when Nebraska scored he went outside and started working on the old 67 LTD and changing the oil. I sat and watched as Penn State went down the field and cringed on that 4th down play. After the Bowman TD, I ran outside out screamed Penn State won and my Dad looked at me like I was crazy and ran in the house. I will never forget those moments....

[@dadestarmysteries255]

IronForged: That's awesome, but damn, how do you give up when you're only down one score? He missed a great moment. My mom as a Penn State fan is kind of like that. I can't look away no matter what. It's interesting how we all deal with it differently.

[@ghosttowntomato]

@@dadestarmysteries255 back then, it was a much larger hill to climb with merely a minute left. Passing game was in its infancy. Especially in college.

[@jesusrivera743]

Curt Warner was special in that game so was Todd

[@jesusrivera743]

So were the triplets to bad they never won a national championship came close though …

[@bruceeigsti5274]

Merry Xmas penn st back to back horrible calls

[@psu7276]

Privileged that I was at that game with 3 friends who never went to a PSU game. What a baptism! We were all in the endzone seats watching that final drive march toward us. It was the loudest game I ever attended and back then, the Beav was not noted for such. But everyone showed up that day. Was hoarse for almost a week.

[@dc5295]

I went to that game. Obviously it was a great result for Penn State fans, and we students hadn’t had enough. We went back to the dorms and watched it again on TV….. whatever school you go to, when your team comes out on top… well, you know what I mean - college football is magical. We Americans never lose a connection to our schools, and following sports from your school is a big reason. That’s why almost 40years later I post this message.

[@okedoke1234]

@dc where did you sit? I was in Freshman section in the end zone.

[@dysfunctionalliteracy3951]

This game still haunts old/middle aged Nebraska fans (like me). Haha! My wife says I still mumble in my sleep, "He was out of bounds. He was OUT OF BOUNDS!!"

[@craigwilliams1573]

Dysfunctional Literacy the better team won

[@joeceonnia1954]

When you get older, I'm in my 60's football loses its luster, and in the scheme of life, football move down the latter of importance, way down..

[@craigwilliams1573]

@@joeceonnia1954 true true

[@debbiehenson1096]

Still crying after all these years. You must really have nightmares about choking the national title game away.

[@franklinbolander1916]

YES HE WAS OUT OF BOUNDS!!

[@okedoke1234]

I was there. In the Freshman section in the End Zone. Just incredible. Those names on Penn State. Wow!!

[@Deewwit]

The Last catch on the sideline WAS clearly out of bounds!!! Home cooking was so evident when you watch these games from the 70’s- 90’s.

[@dadestarmysteries255]

Esquire Dee: And yet you didn't notice the fumble Penn State recovered that they missed or the fumble they called on them when he clearly never had possession?

[@the4spencers]

But it was a split crew as they mentioned in the broadcast. There were some Big 8 officials as well.

[@rmp3648]

There's home cooking EVERYWHERE lol

[@wdrauch]

Very clearly out of bounds

[@livetotell100]

Prove it. You only need one foot in College. And his left foot was in. You wanna talk "home cooking"? 1994.

[@AGTtactical]

I had to study and remember hearing the roar of the win from my room all the way down in Beaver Hall. Still one of the greatest games ever played.

[@bogg7zed102]

Some of the worst calls ever made.

[@johnvillella1087]

@@bogg7zed102 we would’ve kicked your ass in 94, suck it

[@stevenpomeroy5915]

Thanks, Steel Buck. I was 15, a Penn Stater to be in a couple of years, and at this game. Quite a good day! Best to you, Steve

[@jimmyedwards1639]

Hard to imagine that they would both be in the Big 10 years later.

[@leoderosia9279]

Penn at and nebraska were 2 of the big dogs in 70s , 80s....83 huskers were one of great teams in college history

[@nathaniellathy6559]

No Natty

[@jesusrivera743]

Bernie Kosar burned our secondary just like Blackledge . Gutsy call by Coach Osborne a true champion.

[@anthony0358]

Thank you for posting this game, I remember watching this game, it was one of the first games ever on CBS

[@David-su2vv]

Here we go...loose at the end....so Penn State has the refs in the bag....right.

[@jesusrivera743]

That TD pass looked like it could’ve hit the ground , Still proud of my Huskers incredible college football game so early in the season.

[@rawn4203]

This 1982 Nebraska team gets overshadowed by the 83 team. This team was just slightly weaker offensively but much better defensively. Both years they only only one game on the road to the eventual national champ by a combined 4 points. Dam.

[@jefffarris9238]

Would be interesting if they had replay back then, because the last two catches did not appear to be catches. The one at the 2 did not look like he got the one foot inbounds, and the one in the end zone looked like a trap.

[@derjaeger3321]

I was there, one of the most exciting games I have ever saw.

[@AlHusker]

Loved the T shirts going around in Nebraska. A picture of Penn states field with and extra piece where it was caught out of bounds.

[@teekay_1]

The blocking of Nebraska seemed to be diving at the legs of the d-lineman. And then the running back does that little "twinkle-toes" thing following his blockers. It's pretty funny.

[@jayzachary9709]

Penn state passing game was a new kind of football for the early 80's Nebraska offense was still in the 60s.

[@rmp3648]

Air Paterno!

[@jackarmstrong1838]

Other than OSU-PSU at Penn State in 2016, this was the greatest college game I ever saw.

[@edkokosko1759]

I was so lucky to be there. My mom kept telling me " It's not over " Wow, what a game.

[@johnmanning4097]

Thank you been waiting on this Game. I am a Oklahoma Fan but those Early Eighties Husker Teams with Turner Gill and the Triplets were Awesome. Nebraska was Robed by Penn State Refs in this Game.

[@beckmansgrandpa]

Penn State was an Independent and being the home team it was Big 8 refs. Equal amount of bad calls on both sides. Better team won

[@johnmanning4097]

@@beckmansgrandpa Wrong still bad call Penn State receiver was 5 yards out of Bounds.

[@jackarmstrong1838]

@@johnmanning4097 PSU got robbed by the pollsters in 1994, when Nebraska "won"? the National Championship.

[@breakmylegs7294]

@@beckmansgrandpa not true that pass with 13 seconds left was caught 4 feet out of bounds, maybe Jerry Sandusky gave some oral love to the officials

[@breakmylegs7294]

@@jackarmstrong1838 Nebraska was a far superior team in 94 than Ped State 😂😂😂

[@PowidzMalwa]

Im not a fan of either team but I remember watching this game from start to finish. Im an Oklahoma fan thus I hated Nebraska. I know many Husker fans will disagree with me but I feel the 82 and 83 teams were the best Husker teams ever even over the 90 teams that brought Osborne his titles. And I still say Turner Gill was the best Nebraska QB. I give him a slight edge over Tommie Frasier because Gill could pass and was every bit the option QB Frasier was. The Rozier, Craig , Gill backfield with Fryer as receiver was insane. Just by bad luck did Nebraska not break through in 82 or 83. They were scary good. Penn State was also transforming in this time opening up the passing game. Blackldge and Warner were both studs and the Penn State receiving core group here was vastly underrated. Classic, classic game. Side note I sure do miss Gary Bender calling games for CBS both in football and basketball. One of my absolute favorites and I think he was the best guy who could do either football or basketball. May not have been the best for football or basketball exclusively but I still say his ability to be very good at both play by play was a unique skill set that Ive never seen matched.

[@jimmyplenderleith9471]

I dont know....94-95 Cornhuskers were really good....the 1995 team may be the best College Football team ever (or is in the discussion). The 82 and 83 Huskers were GOOD but they did what most Osborne led Husker teams did in that 80s - early 90s era, unable to win the big game. Because of that and the fact the 95 Huskers are just a force of nature, I say the 94-95 Huskers beat out the 82-83 Huskers.

[@PowidzMalwa]

@jimmyplenderleith9471 I was at a USO show in Iraq 2010 where they had alot of 80s and 90s college stars and ex coaches. Barry Switzer was there. Switzer stated that he coached against Osborne in the 70s and 80s with good success but he said he felt the 90s Nebraska teams were the best college teams he had ever seen.

[@jimmyplenderleith9471]

@@PowidzMalwa Yeah, I cant agree more.

[@nathaniellathy6559]

Clash of the Titans.Nebraska was a hard luck team in 80s

[@timkumpost6036]

The infamous "funky field" game.

[@Nincloserlove]

This game led to PSU being in the national championship game against Georgia.

[@mongoslade277]

Nah. This game led to Nebraska beating Penn State 44-6 the next season. Penn State was blown out at Alabama who played in the Liberty Bowl so they weren't that good

[@jimmyplenderleith9471]

@@mongoslade277 Yeah, they just went out and beat an undefeated Georgia team with Hershel Walker in the Sugar Bowl.......but yeah, they couldn't have been that good. Bleh.

[@mongoslade277]

@jimmyplenderleith9471 The 1983 Penn Srate football team wasn't that good. The 82 team was very good, but they weren't the best team in the country. Nevertheless, they were voted #1 by the sportswriters. That game against Nebraska was a farce. Nebraska was screwed with no vaseline or ky or whatever they use these days. I don't remember if the Pitt Panthers in the 1981 season or Penn State in the 82 season beat Georgia in the last minute in the Sugar Bowl. I'm a big Todd Blackledge fan and a bigger Curt Warner fan. A HOF tailback with the Seattle Seahawks if Jr didn't get hurt

[@jimmyplenderleith9471]

@@mongoslade277 Pitt beat Georgia in 1982 Sugar Bowl after 81 season. They scored late in the fourth on fourth down to win. The Penn State team I was talking about was the 82 team. The Nebraska game, the TE was out of bounds. That doesn't automatically mean PSU loses that game. Clock stops on that incompletion so they have a couple plays left. The 82 team was really good. They beat #2 Nebraska, at #13 WVU, at #13 Notre Dame, vs. #5 Pitt and finally an undefeated 11-0 #1 Georgia team. The only team with any argument about sharing or winning natty was 11-0-1 SMU. They beat a #19 Texas team , tied #9 Arkansas at end of the year and beat #6 Pitt in Cotton Bowl. As a PSU fan that feels we deserved a share of the 1994 title, SMU deserved half of the 82 title. No one else had an argument. Nebraska was 12-1 but lost to PSU, UCLA was 10-1-1, Arizona State was 10-2, Arkansas at 9-2-1. None of them could make a claim of the title.

[@rogerbrodniak5644]

2:30 Holy cow, look at the names in that backfield...

[@thealternativefactor6694]

Yeah, insane. Back when Nebraska used to get all the blue chip players

[@jude999]

I wonder whatever happened to Nebraska. They used to be a perennial power house.

[@jimmyplenderleith9471]

Funny enough, to tie things together.....the game where I feel Nebraska's Perrenial power house status started its fall was in the beating PSU game Nebraska in early 2002 season. Nebraska hasnt been the same since. Im not saying that game derailed them, just saying that since that game, Nebraska hasnt been anywhere near the top of the rankings like they lived in during the 70s-80s-90s

[@Nincloserlove]

Would have been an interesting decision if they said the last PSU pass was incomplete: go for tie or go for win?

[@thefrase7884]

Joe would go for the tie

[@jimmyplenderleith9471]

Its Joe Paterno, he is kicking that ball

[@burlingtonbill1]

The "Movable Sideline" game -- 45:24. Only at Happy Valley would a guy with BOTH FEET out of bounds be ruled a legitimate reception.

[@JosePerez-vz1qq]

45:44 trapped it

[@bruceeigsti5274]

The field with the extra wide field at the 2 yd line

[@amypeterson4615]

One of the greatest college games ever played. The best Penn State one since their '69 Orange Bowl win. It kind of sucked before instant replay though.

[@MeIn321]

Back when both of these teams were stacked and could get any player they wanted.

[@scottforesman7968]

Out of bounds. Refs paid very well.

[@davidheckman4188]

Two such well coached teams looking so bad on special teams!

[@Daniel-cu8zt]

Great Big 10 game!!

[@geraldhenderson8487]

YES HE WAS

[@Dizzle0919]

This game is STILL painful...

[@jc4388]

9:47 what a play

[@debbiehenson1096]

What a fabulous game!

[@dadestarmysteries255]

For all the Nebraska fans whining about the one or two questionable calls at the end, I grant that sideline catch looks pretty doubtful. The endzone catch looks pretty clearly a catch but it's awful close. But here's the problem, you all ignore the calls that went in your favor. They missed a fumble Penn State recovered near the start and worse was the fumble called against Penn State in the 3rd quarter where it clearly was not a catch and fumble, he never had possession. You can't cherrypick. Calls come and go for both teams, especially back then with no replay.

[@bogg7zed102]

He was out of bounds and there is nothing you can say that changes that fact. The best part was the absolute beat down the kitties took the next year🤣

[@CowboyRibeye]

Ah, McCloskey was in at 7:41 so it was a makeup call at the end. If they got that right, we would have won by more :)

[@tracyisbest]

Whatever helps you sleep at night bud. Face it, you got CLOBBERED by a bad Alabama team the next game, 42-21. That was Bear's final team that was 8-4. Combine that with this "should have lost" game and it's hard for a lot of fans to see 1982 Penn State as any kind of a 10-2 national champion. You kind of understand that, right? Or at the very least why the TWELVE AND ONE Huskers might not feel you were #1 correct? Geez!

[@philweiand4564]

Psu missed three FGs and had two touchdowns called back in the first half

[@peterchon1179]

I wish PSU still played defense like this. We wouldn't have choked up 2017 and 2018 to OSU. Freaking Brent Pry

[@nathaniellathy6559]

Questionable play calling hurt Penn State against Ohio State in 18

[@oldironsides4107]

They neeed coach Sundusky

[@jimmyplenderleith9471]

Up double digits in both games in the 4th quarter.....

[@fleafarts3576]

Dude caught the ball out of bounds. It’s so obvious. Even replay isn’t needed.

[@plumberphil5321]

Im a PSU fan and the guy was 2 feet out of bounds .

[@ronaldsondergaard4869]

So long ago Nebraska was great, has things changed for the worse

[@chrisuncleahmad789]

If Penn State loses this game, how does that affect the national championship race?

[@mongoslade277]

Penn State was blown out at Alabama a couple of weeks after this game. Still voted them #1

[@jesusrivera743]

Both teams were in rare form so early in the season that was the NATIONAL Championship game . If played in Nebraska Huskers win . In a neutral field who knows, losing to PennSt in 82 and the Miami Cocaines in 83 caused Huskers two National Championships go figure

[@aaronrider4051]

Thanks for posting. A fantastic game, although sadly all anyone remembers is the McCloskey play. Listen ... with the camera angles available, in 1980s film quality, I don't know how anyone could say whether or not that call was right. I can't tell. Anyone who says they can tell "for sure" that Nebraska was robbed is crazy. It's impossible to tell if McCloskey drug his left foot or not. Plus, they could have stopped Kenny Jackson on 4th down before that. They didn't. And Kerry Shawley below me is correct; PSU let a lot more opportunities go than Nebraska did. They won anyway because they were the superior team.

[@aaronrider4051]

I will add, though, that I do think Kenny Jackson was probably out of bounds.

[@dicktracy762]

They were six and half a dozen.

[@MySaviorisJesusChrist]

Clearly out of bounds

[@thefrase7884]

He was in all the way

[@tracyisbest]

@@thefrase7884 For GOD'S sake go get some glasses. LOL!

[@tracyisbest]

On the final kick off, not shown here, that lead to the bogus TD....was there REALLY a 15 yard personal foul on Nebraska at the start of that drive? Its not shown here, but it is 15 more FREE yards for Penn State on a TD drive that FEELS LIKE it shouldn't have been. That 12-1 1982 Nebraska team must always think about what could have been. Refs had NO CONSCIENCE about gifting wins back then, did they? Geez!

[@johnhoie1]

This game and the PSU/Alabama game the next year caused an NCAA change. Before the change, the home team supplied the refs, and Penn State always had local refs.

[@troybrooks2066]

PSU: Predator State University GBR!!!!! 🦴 ☠️

[@trr3160]

It was funny by the 2000s when those refs from the 70s and 80s who loved JoePa were either dead or retired and he wasn’t getting the calls he ended up either complaining about the officiating or running down the refs after the game.

[@JosePerez-vz1qq]

45:22 out of bounds out of bounds out of bounds

[@jackarmstrong1838]

Roger Craig, MikeRozier, Irving Fryar. Nebraska was loaded.

[@tracyisbest]

Face it, PSUs best team was 1994. That one never got the shot at Nebraska, who passed them in the rankings after the two games vs Indiana and Illinois finished closer than many would have liked. Any chance that was a MAKE UP CALL for this game here? Giving NU a shot when they and Osborne got robbed here? Anyway.....this PSU team basically had two true defeats and their '86 team did nothing but watch Miami turn it over about seven times to only finally win 14-10. It too, was a win but they looked far from the best team that night. (was it like 450 yards to about 145 that night or what? geez!) Meanwhile, that 1994 team was stuck playing the Ducks in a bad Rose Bowl which was a nice bowl game for Penn State but hardly the game they really wanted that year. Even a lesser Miami lead Nebraska that year 17-7 for 3 quarters in that Orange Bowl. I think PSU has a good chance to put up points in that one if they had the shot at NU. They put up fifty or more on a bunch of teams - over 60 on the Buckeyes?!?! Again, another team in history who is left to wonder what could have been?

[@rooh5825]

Two out of bounds catches and a trapped ball called as a touchdown!! Congratulations to the winner of this game, the referees!!!

[@jackarmstrong1838]

@JAMES BROWN They got their revenge in 1994, when PSU didnt win the NC, despite having the better team

[@gregorywilson9322]

Questionable calls happen on both sides ...you should know that by now .........

[@rooh5825]

@@gregorywilson9322 - LMAO nice try

[@robjohnson8861]

Hey Mr Poor Sport. PSU drove it 60 yds down Neb's throat that last drive when the play happened. Had it been called out, they still had 11 secs and 2 downs to get a TD. Neb wasn't gonna stop them.

[@rooh5825]

2 out of bounds catches and a trapped ball called as a td! Congrats to the winner of the game, the referees!!!

[@brucetelfeyan]

Worst call ever!

[@JosePerez-vz1qq]

43:52 Kenny Washington was out of bounds, first

[@kerryshawley9647]

No question Penn State was helped by bad call along the sideline on the last drive, but this game should not have been close. Penn State should have been up by at least 3 touchdowns at the half.

[@robjohnson8861]

at least you say "helped." It didn't decide anything, but 13 yds. PSU still had 2 downs and 11 secs had it been called out.

[@thfzn3130]

Nebraska was clearly robbed.

[@bruceeigsti5274]

Biggest ripoff ever 2 plays at the end that were both incomplete

[@huskerjpg]

Still hate Penn State.

[@jodydonnell-um9tx]

Nebraska was it's own enemy by turning the ball over.killing drives leaving points off the board early on in the game.the last drive of the game.that was not a touchdown.nebraska was robbed!

[@josephvandevander6848]

I was a baby during this game. In hindsight, Im sure glad my parents never took me to PSU to meet the coaching staff!!😣😬

[@BenjaminKorth-mf5ec]

I don't understand how penn st team and fans can be proud of this win. At eighteen even I could see he was a mile out of bounds when he caught the dam ball. That ref was crooked as hell.