Jack Frost may not be nipping at your nose just yet, but warm, late summer tailgates seem to be long gone for this year.

Penn State tailgaters are using a variety of food and drinks to stay warm during the hours before and after kickoff.

Erin Muth, Class of 2005, and her husband, Brad, said they tailgate at some home games with friends.

"We just eat dogs, burgers and chicken on the grill," Muth said. "We get the meat from Imler's Poultry, because my family owns it, so we always supply the food."

Muth said her friends help her cook.

"My friend's mom makes hot buffalo chicken dip for most of the tailgates," she said. "We also always have M&Ms and chips."

Muth also has special drink recipes.

"For hot alcoholic drinks I like hot chocolate with Baileys and Kuhlua," she said. "Also, even though it's not hot, my own recipe for Penn State punch is a favorite among my friends. I wanted to make a drink that's blue for tailgates."

Muth said her version of Penn State Punch is vodka, white cranberry peach juice and blue curacao.

"I don't really know the exact amount of each ingredient I use because each time I just mix it up depending on how potent I want the batch to be," she said.

Like the Muth family, Nancy Zelinske, whose daughter is a Penn State student, likes to grill burgers and hot dogs for her tailgates.

Besides hotdogs and hamburgers, Zelinske said she likes to make other things for the kids to eat.

"I've made pork BBQ sandwiches, meatball subs, steak sandwiches and strombolis," she said.

Now that the temperature is dropping, Zelinske said that she has added one more food staple to her winter tailgate.

"With the cold weather I like to make soup," Zelinske said. "When my sister-in-law comes she makes Italian wedding soup from scratch. I make chicken corn noodle soup for scratch."

As for drinks, Zelinske puts a new spin on hot chocolate. "My sister and I like to add butterscotch schnapps to hot chocolate," Zelinske said. "I was never big on coffee, and I don't really think tea is appropriate for tailgating."

Zelinske also always brings her portable stove, along with the grill, to the tailgates to prepare food, such as soup, that can't be cooked on a grill.