To everyone who wasn't a fan of either The Auburn Tigers or Penn State Nittany Lions, this game was going to be closes. Most thought it would come down to the waning seconds. And, for the second time in three weeks, that’s exactly what happened.
The anticipation had been building up for both fanbases, and in other parts of the country as well. An SEC team making its way to a Big Ten campus for the first time since 1933. Two teams who had only met twice, in the Outback and Capital One bowls —in 1996 and 2003, respectively, splitting the two games.