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Adam Bittner: Rutgers blew its chance at a rivalry with Penn State

The chants started cascading down from the upper reaches of Beaver Stadium’s soggy student section in the closing minutes of Penn State’s 28-3 clobbering of Rutgers on Saturday night.

“WE’RE not RI-vals!” (Clap…clap…clap, clap, clap.) “WE’RE not RI-vals!” (Clap…clap…clap, clap, clap.)

They were jeers the Scarlett Knights better be ready to hear for a while because they’ve utterly failed, two years into their Big Ten odyssey, to give anyone in Happy Valley a reason to hate them.

Of course, they’ve talked a big game in trying to establish a rivalry with their neighbor to the west.