Once upon a time, I viewed Beaver Stadium as some kind of barbed wire-and-tetanus riddled Thunderdome that swallowed Big Ten opponents whole. This was probably also around the same time that Penn State fans were making t-shirts ostensibly designed to make fun of Terrelle Pryor that instead ended up just looking uncomfortably sexy.
Then I grew old and cynical and started writing this post, and in the process of doing my cursory five seconds of research, I realized that Penn State is merely a respectable 8-7 against ranked opponents in Happy Valley in the past ten seasons. That's a decent record if you're welcoming say, Northwestern into town but for the likes of Ohio State and Michigan it lessens the mystique a bit.