LITTLE ROCK — Maybe ESPN’s knowledgeable college football analyst and Ohio State product Kirk Herbstreit is superstitious about picking his alma mater or maybe he believes in the power of throngs, color and song.
Whatever the reason, sometime in August, Herbstreit declared Penn State his choice to capture the Big Ten, citing conference games in State College, Pa., vs. his Buckeyes as the deciding factor.
With that in mind, those of us who doubt the value of the home field in football relished the particulars of the Ohio State-Penn State result on Sept. 29.
A stadium-wide “White Out” did not intimidate the Buckeyes nor did the record crowd of 110,889 harmonizing to Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline.