![]() ![]() “Our photographer had us rank the order in which we want her to take pictures. “It was almost too perfect,” Rachel said. ![]() Mansour said he’ll do his best to keep the groomsmen on the dance floor and off their phones, but the couple agreed all bets are off for the other 30 or so guests who have ties to Penn State. 22 because both her alma mater, Virginia Tech, and his shared the same idle week. Mansour and his fiancée, Rachel, picked Oct. “We did our best, but there will still be guests that are grumbling.” “Our friends can only be so mad at us for having a fall wedding, right?” said Kyle Mansour, a Penn State alum. They’ve moved past the frustration of the changed scheduled and have coaxed their guests into doing the same. What became an advance planner’s worst nightmare has morphed into something these brides and grooms are learning to roll with before their marriages even begin. “He said the moral is you just don’t plan this stuff because it works out if you don’t,” Schanzenbach said with a laugh. The couple met at Penn State, and Julie’s family connections to Penn State run deep. “I actually thought my fiancée Julie was playing a joke on me when she said they changed the bye week,” said Brian Schanzenbach. ![]() ET kickoff, it doubles as the annual White Out game, too. In the months that followed, Penn State announced that Saturday’s game against Minnesota would be homecoming. The Nittany Lions’ idle weekend moved from Oct. Penn State was one of the teams most affected by the conference’s changes. It was a byproduct of the shortened 2020 season in which games on the weekend of the conference championship game were hosted on campuses, making future schedules imbalanced. ![]() 12, the Big Ten rearranged this season’s football schedule, including six location changes and multiple dates swaps. This Saturday was slated to be Penn State’s idle weekend. “And of course now it’s the White Out too.” “‘Oh my god, there’s a game on our wedding day!’” he recalled thinking. But last January, as Higgins scrolled Twitter, his heart sank. 22, 2022, the Nittany Lions’ idle weekend. So, in March 2021 the couple secured their wedding venue for Oct. These fall Saturdays are sacred, with the White Out serving as the annual highlight. He’s missed just two Penn State football games since high school, last year’s matchup against Auburn and another one because he was taking the SATs. As a student, Higgins camped outside Beaver Stadium as an officer in Nittanyville. Higgins’ dad and two uncles have a total of 10 Penn State football season tickets. “Those games are scheduled years in advance.” He brought a wireless hub and his Roku to stream the game. Players who attend often are convinced to commit because of the experience.įranklin called the “Whiteout” a bucket-list night for recruits and fans alike.“One of my groomsman had his wedding last year on the day of the White Out for the Auburn game and I gave him so much crap the whole summer,” Higgins said. From a recruiting point, the “Whiteout" has been the most important game of the year. "College football at its finest:" Offensive lineman Steven Gonzalez said the “Whiteout” is “college football at its finest,” a point Franklin said impacts not only Saturday game but also the team’s future. And then I think another 300,000 tailgating, another 600,000 alumni watching all over the country and the world, and then hopefully we can recruit another 500,000, maybe borderline, Penn State fans that we can get on board with us this weekend.” “I mean, what can we really get in there?” Franklin asked Tuesday at his weekly press conference. Ohio State’s 27-26 win over Penn State last year broke the record by 66 fans (110,889). In 2017, a record crowd of 110,823 watched Penn State defeat Michigan 42-13. The game, which is sold out, should challenge the Beaver Stadium attendance record, which was set with the last two “Whiteout” games. ![]()
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