It was a miserable afternoon. A cold, constant downpour on a mid-November Saturday in State College. The kind that makes you not care about much of anything, including the 2002 football team, which was 7-3 heading into the game.
The Nittany Lions were on the road that weekend. In Bloomington to be exact, taking on Big Ten doormat Indiana. And though that game will come to be famous for Larry Johnson's school-record 327 yards rushing, that isn't the distinction that it holds currently.
November 16, 2002. Bloomington, Ind. Penn State 58, Indiana 25.
The last time Penn State won a game away from Happy Valley.
Like most Lions fans, you may have already repressed memories of the 2003 season, so it's forgivable if you've forgotten that Penn State was shut out on the road last year, going 0-5 and being outscored 130-55. Throw in the Capital One Bowl loss to Auburn the season before and that's seven straight times the Lions have lost outside of Beaver Stadium, including this season's loss at Boston College.
Seems like longer.
Imagine how it feels for a true sophomore like linebacker Paul Posluszny. He has yet to win a road game in the Blue and White. After a while, you start running out of answers.
"I'm really not sure why we have problems," Posluszny said. "Especially last year, we didn't win one on the road."
