With all due respect to Pitt and West Virginia, few teams in the country can match the football atmosphere on a Saturday in State College, PA. A new panel, comprised of former and current coaches and media members, has placed Beaver Stadium as the number three "Saturday Shrine" behind Alabama's Bryant-Denny Stadium and Notre Dame Stadium.
↵↵The panel weighed each of the nation's stadiums by the facility itself, the fans and atmosphere, the city and surroundings, traditions and history.
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↵↵Beaver Stadium's capacity of 107,282 is the nation's second-largest and Penn State fans have kept the Nittany Lions among the Top 4 in NCAA home attendance every year since 1991. Penn State has finished No. 2 in the nation in attendance each of the past four years and eight times overall since 1991.
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Hopefully the on-field product improves in short order. The Nittany Lions are off this weekend, licking their wounds following a devastating home loss to Illinois last weekend. They travel to Minnesota's new TCF Bank Stadium in one week, where Evan Royster will look to break the school's all-time rushing record (he's currently 93 yards shy).