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Related: About this forumIllinois finally upsets #7 Penn State
It took 9 overtimes to do it. It was still a low scoring game in overtime. The score is 20-18.
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Illinois finally upsets #7 Penn State (Original Post)
AZProgressive
Oct 2021
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hlthe2b
(107,789 posts)1. Good for Illinois (Never been a Penn State fan)
Sibelius Fan
(24,643 posts)2. I've hated Penn State ever since Joe Paterno campaigned for Ronald Reagan.
Buckeye_Democrat
(15,128 posts)3. The most overtimes of any football game...
... from high school on up, or so I heard. That could be a premature declaration, though?
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Wrong! (I was stupid to trust a poster on a sports forum!)
It was the most OT's for a college game, but here's a high school game that lasted for 12 OT's!
https://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/30/high-school-football-game-goes-12-overtimes/amp/
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The new rules, with nothing but 2-point conversion attempts after the 2nd overtime, surely made it easier to happen.