The folks at Nike better get busy.

After Penn State's 40-7 victory against Nebraska, Nittany Lions defensive end Anthony Adams was looking to place a pretty big order.

"Earlier we gave out game balls, and if we had 110,000 balls we would have given them to the fans," Adams said. "They did good today."

With a record 110,753 fans packed into every nook and cranny of Beaver Stadium, the blue and white faithful created enough of a racket to fuel the Lions' defense and disrupt the Cornhuskers' offense.

Instead of a feared invasion of Nebraska fans, the "Sea of Red" never rose past low tide, an apparent success for "Operation Visine" (the Penn State fans attempt "to get the red out"). An e-mail circulated among Penn State fans encouraging spectators to wear blue and not sell tickets to Nebraska fans.

The result was a crowd so rowdy, something probably assisted by an 8 p.m. start time that is rare for Happy Valley, that the 'Huskers began having trouble organizing their offense. With the first booming chants of "We are Penn State" coming 53 minutes before kickoff, the crowd showed they intended to make its presence known early.

That boisterous spirit carried through the game. The Beaver Stadium crowd was at its loudest during the third quarter, when Penn State took control of the game.

"I thought [Nebraska quarterback Jammal Lord] did a good job of handling it in the first half, but as a team, as a staff, we didn't do a good job of handling it as the game went on," Nebraska football coach Frank Solich said.

Besides the sheer volume created, which Nebraska center John Garrison said was the loudest he had ever faced, Solich's players were also impressed by the crowd's wisdom.

"The crowd was into the game, I mean they were loud and into the game," Nebraska cornerback DeJuan Groce said. "When the Penn State offense was in the game, they knew how to calm down the crowd and when to get the crowd up when they were on defense. They knew how to play a role and the crowd played a big role in the game."

At some points, the noise level became so great that the members of Penn State's defense, normally the unit that benefits the most from the deafening cheers, couldn't communicate with one another -- not that they were complaining.

"There were times when we were on the field and we were trying to get the defense in and I didn't even know what defense we were in," Adams, a fifth-year senior, said. "In my years of being here, this is the loudest I've ever heard it."

One thing's for sure, Nike's going to need a lot of synthetic leather.