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Best atmosphere? Best student section? Penn State cleans up in ESPN’s ‘Herbies’

Don’t call him a homer.

ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit, a former Ohio State quarterback and current college football analyst, picked the Nittany Lions’ annual White Out as one of the five best atmospheres in all of college football while also naming the student section one of the nation’s five best. On top of that, he predicted Penn State as one of his four playoff teams.

The Buckeyes were left off all three lists.

As part of the annual “Herbie Awards,” Herbsteit released a series of top-5 superlative lists Wednesday morning. ESPN will air an “Herbies Preseason Special” at 8 p.