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Penn State releases plan for Blue-White game seating with Beaver Stadium construction ongoing

Greg Pickelby:Greg Pickel•03/29/25•

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A look at the ongoing construction at Penn State Beaver Stadium on March 25. (Pickel/BWI)

Penn State has released new details about next month’s Blue-White game. The annual spring football practice finale will take place on April 26 at 2 p.m. ET. It will not be televised. But fans, of course, are welcome to attend the event at Beaver Stadium, even if the 107,000-seat venue is currently an active construction site.

In a Saturday morning social media post, the athletic department said that “unique and non-traditional Blue-White Game will have a few fans impacts including entry and seating.” As expected, the west side stands will be closed following the press box felling behind them earlier this year. However, according to the graphic, the rest of the stadium’s seats will be open. Gates A and E, which are on the east side of the stadium, will be the only ones available for entry.

The news comes roughly a month after athletic director Pat Kraft noted that there would be logistical challenges attached to this year’s Blue-White game because of the ongoing renovation.

“The spring game is going to be a little interesting,” he said in February. “And by interesting, I really don’t know what it’s going to look like. We’re expanding the east side concourse, so we’re doubling the east main concourse, and I got to hit a mark by that Nevada game.  

“You’ve got the best football team in the country, and everybody wants to get in, so we’re going to try. We’re going to really work on some things to figure out nuances to that. But the west is going to be under construction and so it’s going to be a bit of an interesting Blue-White Game. We’ll make sure we get everyone information on how to enjoy it. “

How will the Blue-White game be different this year compared to past Penn State spring scrimmages?

We only have some of the details so far. But, not having the game on television is not the only way the 15th Penn State spring practice will be different from past ones.

“I could see it being maybe a little bit shorter,” head coach James Franklin said earlier this week. “One of the things I don’t think we’ll do is a halftime. There has been years where we’ll have 75,000 people out there. Halftime for 20 minutes and the parking lot becomes more attractive than the second half and the tailgateing. So we will probably condense it down, maybe a little bit shorter quarters, maybe no halftime.

“It also probably won’t all be live. It’ll be a mixture of some live and some thud. But back to the question I got early on, when you’re trying to modify, we got so many players that decided to come back, there will be a lot of players that we’re going to modify from live reps.”

Penn State will release more information about the Blue-White game in the day and weeks ahead.

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