The JoePa nationwide victory tour

Today I was reading the story about the guy who has seen every D1 college football team play at least once in person. Which got me thinking, how many teams has Joe faced as Penn State head coach? How many has he defeated? Since I do a solid 15 minutes of work everyday for my employer (a la Office Space), I thought I'd use the handy dandy internet and my thirst for knowledge to figure this all out. Also fueling my 2 hour long desire for the answer was the post about PSU's future non-conference schedules, as thrilling as they may be.

Without further adieu, here are the results (drumroll please)....

Joe has faced 78 of the current 120 D1 schools at least once, not including victories over 5 D-1AA programs (Colgate, Brown, William & Mary, Youngstown St., and Coastal Carolina). He has beaten 75 of these 78 teams on at least one occasion. The only three schools he has coached against but not (yet?) defeated are Florida (0-1), Clemson (0-1), and - get ready for it - Toledo (0-1). Yeah, that Toledo. Oklahoma counts for the sole reason that the 1972 Sugar Bowl was a Penn State 14-0 win via forfeit, although he has never beaten them via 60 grueling minutes from his players. Nonetheless, it counts officially as one of the 375 and counting victims.

There are 5 teams Joe has recorded 20+ vicories against. Leading the carnage is WVU (25 wins), Maryland (24), Temple (24, with a first place tie looming), Pitt (23, although I wish it were 53), and Syracuse (21, going on 22).

Breakdown by conference: There are 42 programs he has never faced, and 45 he has never beaten. They are as follows:   ACC - Duke, North Carolina, Virginia Tech (thanks alot FSU '05), and Clemson (0-1).   Big XII - Iowa St. and Oklahoma St.   Big Least - UConn.   C-USA - Marshall (We Are..Marshall?? you thieves), Memphis, Rice, Tulsa, UAB, and UTEP.   1A Indepentents - Western Kentucky.   MAC - Ball St., Miami OH, Toledo (0-1, sigh), and Western Michigan.   Mountain West - Colorado St., New Mexico, San Diego St., UNLV, Utah, and Wyoming.   Pac 10 - surprisingly only one, Washington St.   SEC - Arkansas, Florida (0-1), Mississippi, Mississippi St., South Carolina (c'mon, lets dance 'ol ball coach), and Vanderbilt. Oh how I would love to see him finish that list off.   Sun Belt - Arkansas St. (you're lucky Oregon St. agreed to the beating instead last Saturday), FAU, LA-Lafayette, LA-Monroe, Middle Tennessee St., North Texas, and Troy - the other white Trojans.   Last but not least, the WAC - Boise St. (not so tough if you're not facing Oklahoma, huh tough guys?), Fresno St., Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico St., and San Jose St.

Here's to reverting back to Independent status for the next 5 years and crossing these teams off one by one!!