Fox Analyst/Depressed Postgame Papa John’s Eater meme Urban Meyer recently said the annual mark-your-calendar extravaganza provides 10-point advantage for the good guys. To find out if that’s even close to true, we went all ‘Beautiful Mind’ and crunched some numbers.

Look, the Whiteout is incredible. 

To borrow a line from the Southern University Human Jukebox Marching Band, the Whiteout is “often imitated, never duplicated.” Blackouts, Maizeouts, Maroonouts…sorry, they just don’t hit the same. 

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We Dug Through the Vault and Dusted Off Some 2016 Western Michigan Tape Looking for More Clues To What Kirk Ciarrocca Might Bring to Penn State. Are You Ready for Some #MACtion?!?

Before we begin, let’s explain what the heck is going on in the GIF below the headline of this blog, because surely you’re startled, confused and probably a little uncomfortable.

The Year is 2013: Dr. Jason Seaver’s real-life son gives us the Song of the Summer, The Oxford Dictionary dubs ‘Selfie’ the Word of Year, and Penn State has last names on the back of its jerseys. Oh, and in tiny Kalamazoo, Michigan, an upstart coaching staff takes the Harlem Shake craze to the next level.

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 Soooo…What The Heck Is It?!?!? A Deep Dive Into The New Offensive Coordinator’s Trends and Tendencies During Minnesota’s Magical 2019 Season Provides Some Answers But Also More Questions

We are Pavlov’s Dog.

And Kirk Ciarrocca is our bell.

Thanks to the transformative hire of Joe Moorhead – and the sometimes-maddening Running-Up-The-Down-Escalator feel of internally-promoted Ricky Rahne’s tenure — we’ve been conditioned to salivate when an outsider is brought in to call plays.

Go ahead, waste a bit of your workday, and shuffle through the comment sections and message board ramblings when news broke of Ciarrocca’s hire as Penn State offensive coordinator in mid-December. Try and find a negative, or even room-temperature reaction. You can’t.

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