Penn State football: Top-10 moments in ‘White Out’ history
By Brad Weiss
Penn State football: Top-10 moments in ‘White Out’ history
No. 2 “The Catch”
The 2013 matchup against Michigan was such a historic moment for White Out history, that we had to have a few moments from that matchup in our top-10. Of course, Bill Belton scoring the game-winning touchdown had to be there, as it came in the fourth overtime, but it was an outstanding throw and catch that set the Nittany Lions up for success in this one.
Named ‘The Catch,’ Allen Robinson’s haul from Christian Hackenberg set up the Nittany Lions to push this game into overtime, a place they should have never been in the first place. Remember, Michigan came into this game ranked, and was 5-0 at the time, while the Nittany Lions were in the second year of a four-year ban.
Penn State did not play scared at all in this game, building a halftime lead, before seeing Michigan score 17 points in the third quarter. That brought us to the magic fourth frame, where down ten, the Nittany Lions went on a run, scoring ten unanswered due to a Sam Ficken field goal, and a one-yard touchdown run by Hackenberg.
Hackenberg’s score was set up by the catch by Robinson, a 33-yard reception with under 30 seconds left in the game to put Penn State at the one-yard line. In the second overtime, the two teams would trade fields goal, and it was not until Belton’s fourth-overtime score that the Nittany Lions completed the upset.