{"id":731313,"date":"2026-06-28T16:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/731313\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T16:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:43:10","slug":"only-back-to-back-undefeated-seasons-until-penn-state-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/731313\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Back-to-Back Undefeated Seasons Until Penn State Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Penn State opens its football season at home in 69 days against Marshall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">There\u2019s no No. 69 on this year\u2019s football roster, but in 1969, the Lions completed a second straight unbeaten season and finished No. 2 in the national polls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Penn State, fresh off their unbeaten 1968 season and a win in the Orange Bowl against Kansas, opened the year ranked No. 3 and fast moved up to No. 2 after an easy win against Colorado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Lions bounced all around the top ten, dropping all the way to No. 8 after a close win at Syracuse in October. Penn State climbed back up to No. 2 following dominant wins to close the season against North Carolina State and Pitt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Of course, this was the year of the famed Arkansas\/Texas showdown that saw President Nixon declare the winner the No. 1 team in the country. Penn State downed No. 6 Missouri in Miami and ultimately turned down a chance to visit the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It was the second of five unbeaten seasons for Penn State under Joe Paterno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penn State opens its football season at home in 69 days against Marshall. There\u2019s no No. 69 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,24283,99],"class_list":["post-731313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-penn-state-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}