www.linebacker-u.com/ ... En route to a national championship, #5 Penn State went down to Tuscaloosa in late October of 1986 and handily defeated #2 Alabama 23-3, thanks to five Alabama turnovers.
This defense was the typical bend but don't break!!! They were fantastic, Shane Conlin and Andre Collins were phenomenal and D.J. on the offense as well!!!! I loved when we went into the Fiesta bowl all about business!!! And, Miami got off the plane wearing military camaflouge and laughing, and then we intercepted Testaverte 5 times!!!!!!
@@okedoke1234 Right, but this team was strong too. What a dominant performance. Joepa probably couldn't believe he hit all those field goals and 5 turnovers, what a dream day.
Kerry Collins was a very good QB who played for Penn State in 1994 they were even ranked #1 for a while with Collins at QB. Kerry Collins became a good starting quarterback in the NFL he lead the Giants to a Superbowl that they lost to Ray Lewis and an all time great loaded Ravens defense but Penn State has had a few legit QB'S back in the day.
Lost @ WV on a sat nite on ESPN... remember it well, I lost money. Paterno had a tying FG, but passed it up going 4 the win. The FG would have covered for me, oh well... who says you'll forget the losses?
@@bishlap Odd choice for joe too. I'd have rather he went for the win more often but he played the percentages, minimized mistakes, fundamentals, good d.
@@e2go iirc, joepa had made a derogatory remark along the lines of “I won’t leave college football to the Barry Switzers and Jackie Sherrills of the world” at some point during the ‘80s and Oklahoma used that as extra motivation in that Orange Bowl loss for the nittany lions. As a Bama fan I miss the series that we played back in that decade-much mutual respect between our fan bases.
Lifelong Bama fan and a student during this time. I was there for this gray, rainy, frustrating game. Everything is a blur except 5:03 because I'd guessed it was about to happen. This wasn't a great Bama team, but '86 PSU was a machine.
In the final four games in Alabama ('84, '86, '88, and '90), Alabama did not score a TD. However, they were 2-2 in those games: 84: Bama 6, Penn St. 0 86: Penn St. 23, Bama 3 88: Bama 8, Penn St. 3 90: Penn St. 9, Bama 0
There are high school teams that could beat these sorry ala teams. That Shula curse, he was a sorry qb, and an even sorrier coach. Not one player was drafted into the Nfl in 2006. pitiful.
Wait...THAT is Bryant-Denny Stadium? I thought that that place held over 100,000. Perhaps the television network got it wrong and meant to say Legion Field because that place does not look anything like Bryant Denny Stadium
yea i remember this game.penn state had a great team that year.i thought alabama was going to just whip the hell out penn state the day before.......oh well.
the PSU line was awesome the out weighed Bamas line by at least 75 lbs a player They dominartedf that game but Bama was so drunk from wolluping tn they shuld of played better I just think PSU was awesome then
Alabama played horrible in this game. Alabama had a great team that year. They ran out of gas late in the season. Look at their schedule from that year. They was emotionally drained by the time they reached this game. Penn State would have probably still won but Alabama would have given them a much better game and atleast had a chance. The halfback screen hurt both teams. Penn State had a great team that year no doubt
I still love PENN STATE. Kept faith through institutional tragedy that sapped mortal strenght of one of the greatest all time IVY LEAGUE quarterbacks. By contrast, I loathe bama. Never once rooted for the program. Needless to say I enjoyed the video.
We had somewhat of an advantage when we played Bama in the 1980s. Bama was always one of our biggest games, while we were not one of Bama's biggest games. Bama's biggest games back then were against the likes of Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, LSU and Auburn. I guess some things never change. This game was played around October 25, right in the middle of the SEC schedule. Bama was ripe for a let down game.
