1969 Season
| 1969 Penn State Nittany Lions football | |||
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| Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy | |||
| Orange Bowl, defeated Missouri, 10–3 | |||
| Conference | Independent | ||
| Ranking | |||
| Coaches | #2 | ||
| AP | #2 | ||
| 1969 record | 11–0 | ||
| Head coach | Joe Paterno | ||
| Captain | Tom Jackson | ||
| Captain | Mike Reid | ||
| Captain | Steve Smear | ||
| Home stadium | Beaver Stadium (Capacity: 48,284) |
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Despite posting its second consecutive undefeated, untied season, the Nittany Lions did not have a shot at the national championship. President Richard Nixon said that he would consider the winner of the December 6 matchup between the Texas Longhorns and the Arkansas Razorbacks, then ranked at the top of the polls, and the real voters do not seem to have differed. At the time, national champions were selected before bowl games were played. Paterno, at the 1973 commencement, was quoted saying, "I'd like to know how could the president know so little about Watergate in 1973 and so much about college football in 1969?" Penn State declined an invitation to play the Texas/Arkansas winner in the Cotton Bowl.
| Date | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | ||
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| September 20, 1969 | at Navy | #3 | Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium • Annapolis, MD | W 45–22 | 28,796 | |||
| September 27, 1969 | Colorado | #2 | Beaver Stadium • University Park, PA | W 27–3 | 51,402 | |||
| October 4, 1969 | at Kansas State | #2 | KSU Stadium • Manhattan, KS | W 17–14 | 37,000 | |||
| October 11, 1969 | #17 West Virginia | #5 | Beaver Stadium • University Park, PA | W 20–0 | 52,713 | |||
| October 18, 1969 | at Syracuse | #5 | Archbold Stadium • Syracuse, NY | W 15–14 | 42,291 | |||
| October 25, 1969 | Ohio | #8 | Beaver Stadium • University Park, PA | W 42–3 | 49,069 | |||
| November 1, 1969 | Boston College | #5 | Beaver Stadium • University Park, PA | CBS | W 38–16 | 46,652 | ||
| November 15, 1969 | Maryland | #5 | Beaver Stadium • University Park, PA | W 48–0 | 46,106 | |||
| November 22, 1969 | at Pittsburgh | #4 | Pitt Stadium • Pittsburgh, PA | W 27–7 | 39,517 | |||
| November 29, 1969 | at NC State | #3 | Carter Stadium • Raleigh, NC | ABC National | W 33–8 | 24,150 | ||
| January 1, 1970 | vs. #6 Missouri | #2 | Miami Orange Bowl • Miami, FL (Orange Bowl) | NBC | W 10–3 | 77,282 | ||
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