This isn’t just a team that can do one or two things well. There’s real credence to the idea that it has as good a chance as anyone.

The Nittany Lions have a long, storied history in bowl games dating to 1923. Here's a look at Penn State's bowl history.

Penn State never really felt like it could lose against Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl, but the game was in fact within three points midway through the third quarter. Then Tyler Warren and Nicholas Singleton happened,