3rd straight 10 win season

Bones80

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Would also like to know, how many other teams in addition to PS and Ducks went 5-0 on the road this year?
 
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IBeBlockin

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Paterno’s 4 straight seasons of at least 10 victories from 1971 to 1974 is more impressive. Even the streak from 1980-1982 is more impressive.

To be honest, Pitt’s 3 straight seasons of going 11-1 from 1979 to 1981 is also more impressive.
 

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Paterno’s 4 straight seasons of at least 10 victories from 1971 to 1974 is more impressive. Even the streak from 1980-1982 is more impressive.

To be honest, Pitt’s 3 straight seasons of going 11-1 from 1979 to 1981 is also more impressive.
Why?
 

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Paterno’s 4 straight seasons of at least 10 victories from 1971 to 1974 is more impressive. Even the streak from 1980-1982 is more impressive.

To be honest, Pitt’s 3 straight seasons of going 11-1 from 1979 to 1981 is also more impressive.
Yes, we were a terror to the service academies.
 

Blair10

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No doubt 10 wins is a very good accomplishment for any team.

I do think some fans and media types have underestimated the road victory over USC this year. That is a tough place to win for visitors. I think the USC road win was more significant than any other victory by Penn State.

Defeating big time, blue blood programs like USC means a lot. Hats off to Franklin for that accomplishment in 2024.
 

WestSideLion

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Didn’t start playing 12 game seasons until 2006, so harder to do prior to - still, nice feather in the cap given it’s difficult to do even with 12 game seasons.
This is such obvious context that many here are missing. 10 wins in the years of 11 regular season games was a much bigger thing than doing it today with 12 or even 13 with conf title games.
 

Pittston-Lion

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Paterno’s 4 straight seasons of at least 10 victories from 1971 to 1974 is more impressive. Even the streak from 1980-1982 is more impressive.

To be honest, Pitt’s 3 straight seasons of going 11-1 from 1979 to 1981 is also more impressive.
Really, your examples are more than 40
And 50 years ago…be happy…
 

LB99

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Paterno’s 4 straight seasons of at least 10 victories from 1971 to 1974 is more impressive. Even the streak from 1980-1982 is more impressive.

To be honest, Pitt’s 3 straight seasons of going 11-1 from 1979 to 1981 is also more impressive.
Really? Hiw many scholarship players did those teams have? 100? How many of the kids on those teams put themselves in the transfer portal if they didn’t like their playing time? How many wanted to leave early for the draft? How much NIL did the coaches back then have to accommodate for everyone from the star player to the 18 yr old pimply faced recruit who asked for more? I think the coaches today have a much more difficult job.
 

LB99

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No doubt 10 wins is a very good accomplishment for any team.

I do think some fans and media types have underestimated the road victory over USC this year. That is a tough place to win for visitors. I think the USC road win was more significant than any other victory by Penn State.

Defeating big time, blue blood programs like USC means a lot. Hats off to Franklin for that accomplishment in 2024.
Come from behind road wins at USC, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Not an easy task.
 

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Paterno’s 4 straight seasons of at least 10 victories from 1971 to 1974 is more impressive. Even the streak from 1980-1982 is more impressive.

To be honest, Pitt’s 3 straight seasons of going 11-1 from 1979 to 1981 is also more impressive.

I missed the part where anyone was trying to assert the relative impressiveness of this streak over any other one. I think the point was merely that this is a notable achievement, and some kudos are rightfully due to the team and the coaching staff.
 

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Paterno’s 4 straight seasons of at least 10 victories from 1971 to 1974 is more impressive. Even the streak from 1980-1982 is more impressive.

To be honest, Pitt’s 3 straight seasons of going 11-1 from 1979 to 1981 is also more impressive.
Maybe we should schedule army, navy, air force, Syracuse, Maryland, Rutgers, temple, west Virginia and Pitt. Let's also factor in the fact that Pennsylvania was producing about three times as much talent as today.

Paterno actually underperformed.

Zero top 10 wins from 71-74. 0-3. Losses to tennessee, Tennessee and ncstate. Also lost 7-6 to an unranked navy.
 
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