The Crimson Tide will cross the Mason Dixon Line for the first time in 22 years to play at Penn State at 3:30 p.m. in Happy Valley. Fittingly, the last time it played in the North was at Penn State in 1989.
Alabama famously won 17-16 in Beaver Stadium when Thomas Rayam blocked a chip-shot Ray Tarasi 17-yard field goal in the closing seconds.
Since then, meetings with Big Ten teams were rare. Only a few bowl matchups and last year’s visit from the Nittany Lions were the only meetings Alabama had with the now 12-team conference centered in the Midwest.
Beaver Stadium has been expanded twice since Bill Curry’s Tide played there last. Most current players weren’t even born then, so there’s a certain curiosity among several team members about playing in the foreign environment.
“It’s definitely ... something special to me,” Tide offensive lineman Barrett Jones said. “Happy Valley is a place that there’s a lot of football history, a lot of rich tradition. I think it’s going to be a great opportunity to go up there and play and especially experience a whiteout and all that kind of thing. It’s a really big opportunity.”
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