Penn State Nittany Lions score vs. Nevada makes history never before done in college football

Billy Heyen

Penn State Nittany Lions score vs. Nevada makes history never before done in college football image

The game felt more or less like it was over before it even started.

But there was one bit of suspense riding on Penn State's season-opening college football clash against Nevada. Would the Nittany Lions put up a score never before seen at this level?

The answer: Yes.

Every little quirk had to happen along the way in a 46-11 PSU victory over the Wolfpack. And that score, according to CFB Home, has never happened before at the Division I level.

It's a scorigami, a first of its kind score line that may never happen again.

The exclamation point to secure the scorigami was a late Nevada touchdown in which not only the Wolfpack scored but then also went for 2 and converted to get them to the unusual 11 total.

Penn State's score went into the realm of the unusual when the Nittany Lions ran a weird trick play after scoring a touchdown to go up 36-3. The 2-point attempt was stifled, meaning that a field goal and then a TD to end it for Penn State put them at 46, a weirder number than either 47 or 48 that would've come with either an extra point or a successful 2-point try.

The Nittany Lions surely don't care much that there'd never been a 46-11 game in college football history. They just wanted to take care of business, win and then move on to bigger things.

But it's a fun little footnote at the start of a highly hyped season for Penn State. They started in unique fashion. Maybe they can finish like that, too.

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Billy Heyen

Billy Heyen is a freelance writer with The Sporting News. He is a 2019 graduate of Syracuse University who has written about many sports and fantasy sports for The Sporting News. Sports reporting work has also appeared in a number of newspapers, including the Sandusky Register and Rochester Democrat & Chronicle