Sam Hubbard wasn’t trying to be funny when the Ohio State redshirt freshman defensive end was asked this week about the intensity of the Buckeyes’ rivalry with Penn State.
“Ohio State and Penn State, these two schools have been going at it since before I was born,” Hubbard said. “We have to carry on the tradition and carry on the fight.”
Hubbard was born in 1995, two years after Penn State joined the Big Ten. To him, the conference without the Nittany Lions must seem like ancient history.
For Penn State, though, Ohio State is as big a rivalry as it has.