According to a thread ($) started by a mod on their On3 site, the answer to that question is a surprising "yes."
I could have sworn that I saw it posted somewhere on BP today that it's almost assuredly going to be a noon game this year. But I don't see it.
However, that news made it over to Nittany Lounge.
https://bwi.forums.rivals.com/threads/rumors-swirling-about-the-whiteout-at-noon.318832/
ESPN/ABC released a list of their big primetime games for 2022, and Penn State-Ohio State isn’t on there
FOX likes their biggest games to kick off at noon. The Whiteout might have to follow suit…
Welp, won't be going to that one....zzzzzz
Ha - "I only go to white outs at night!"
Sorry but PSU has to grow a set and say all our designated White Outs to be played at night. Play the game at night and shove the TV up your A--.
If the OSU and MIch game is always set at noon, then that's our deal too.
I will say the White Out is feared by Mich and OSU for reasons including recruiting, loudness, and mostly a loss.
Yeah - "We scheduled all of our fans to dress the same and we require this to be a night game for that. Otherwise, we just look like a bunch of fans who insisted we all dress the same that day."
He does bring up a good point, though. Not his third point - I think it's well-documented that Ohio State has done pretty well in white outs. (Wins in 2007, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2018, and losses in 2005 and 2016.) I mean his second point. If The Game can dictate what time it starts, then Penn State should be allowed to choose what time they want to start, right? I mean, it's the same. Right? Right?
In case no one can hear my sarcasm, let me be clear: "The Game is THE GAME. White outs are not. White outs are only slightly more of a tradition than "The Rail" is, and almost as lame. Show me 100 years of "because I couldn't go for 3" and the stupid M-Club banner and Boston vs. Woodson and hissy fits when JT gets a first down. Show me a coach who refuses to buy gas in the other state, or refusal to say the other team's name. Show me a campus where the students block out the letters corresponding to the other team's name. Show me where the conference athletic directors had to get together and decide which coach they wanted to piss off more. Penn State, you are not a part of The Game, and no game you have can compare. Get back in your chair before you find out there is no more chair for you, anymore."
What's the saying? "Born on third and he thinks he hit a triple." Penn State got a triple against little leaguers, came to the Big Ten, and has somehow gone backward to first base, and all they can do is expect more triples.
They came into the conference thinking they'd steamroll every year. Now, almost 30 years later, they have 4 championships. 4 in 29 years. That's good for 4th place, behind Wisconsin (6), *ichigan (6), and Ohio State (15). And overall win percentage since 1993? Also 4th, behind the same 3 teams.
So... yeah. All that to say that your white out has about as much power to control the start time as the San Diego Chicken does.
