btw usc beat penn st 29-5 in 2000.
Ok...
a few people care about West Coast ball.
And yes we did lose in 2000. Its been a rough couple of years.
Since Paterno started coaching... USC has fallen to Penn State 4 Times... including 3 in a row ('91,'94,'96) and lets not forget the 1982 Fiesta Bowl. He's still got a winning record against them (4-3 overall). If you count the 1923 Rose Bowl before Paterno was coach (like saying "when dinosaurs ruled the earth") then the record is 4 - 4.
I will admit that had Penn State played USC this year we probably would have lost. Badly. But we'll never know because there wasn't a playoff*.
I'm going to stop writing now because this is only going to get out of control from here on out as I find ways to talk trash about every division one team that is not Penn State. Besides if I talk more about USC some
people might be offended.
*Also requires Penn State to qualify for playoffs... which wouldn't have happened.