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No. No. 6 Penn State (7-1, 4-1 Big Ten) will host Washington (5-4, 3-3 Big Ten) on Saturday night, but you won’t be able to find the game on broadcast or cable TV.

Instead, the Nittany Lions and the Huskies will face each other exclusively on Peacock, NBC’s subscription streaming service, as part of the network’s deal to carry Big Ten games.

In a first for college football, the game will be shown in select IMAX theaters nationwide. Locally, the game will be broadcast live on IMAX screens in Cherry Hill, King of Prussia, Bensalem and Center Valley. A A full list of theaters across the country can be found here.

After losing to No. 3 Ohio State last weekPenn State’s hopes of reaching the expanded 12-team playoff field hinge on a strong showing against the Huskies. Despite the loss, if the season were to end today, Penn State would host No. 10 Notre Dame in the first round of the expanded playoffs.

“College football has changed and we have an opportunity to right some wrongs,” Penn State head coach James Franklin said after the loss.

The College Football Playoffs rankings will be updated every Tuesday until the final round is announced on December 8.

It wasn’t just the fans who were upset by the loss. After the game, Franklin had a brief conversation with a fan in the student section who shouted something as the coach walked off the field.

‘What’s your name? If you’re man enough to talk, what’s your name?!” Franklin fired back in a video that quickly went viral on social media.

“Someone yells at me and my daughter within a few feet as we walk off the field. I’m fine with that. That comes with the territory. I asked the young man his name,’ Franklin told reporters at his weekly news conference. “To me it’s like posting something. If you’re going to post something, post it with your photo and your name and decide what to post… He started stuttering and walking backwards and didn’t say his name.

Here’s everything you need to know to watch or stream the Nittany Lions game:

Saturday’s Penn State-Washington game will stream exclusively on Peacock beginning at 8:00 PM Eastern.

The game’s caller is Notre Dame announcer Paul Burmeister, who Philly sports fans will likely remember from his decade-long stint as host on the NFL Network. He has worked at NBC since 2014.

Next to Burmeister is Colt McCoy, the former Texas standout who played 13 seasons in the NFL, six of them in Washington. Zora Stephenson will report from the sidelines at Beaver Stadium.

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Unfortunately, no. The only place to watch Saturday’s game between Penn State and Washington is to stream it on Peacock.

It is one of nine Big Ten games to air exclusively on the streaming platform this season.

If you don’t feel like doing the $7.99 per month for Peacock (there is no free trial, but it is there a student subscription for $1.99 per month), you can tune to 1210 WPHT. The game will be called on the radio by longtime play-by-play announcer Steve Jones, along with NFL Hall of Famer and former Nittany Lions linebacker Jack Ham.

Penn State enters Saturday’s game with an undefeated 3-0 against Washington, but those three games span more than a century.

The first time the Nittany Lions faced the Huskies was the final game of the 1921 season. The two teams also faced each other in the 1983 Aloha Bowl and at the 2017 Fiesta Bowl, where current Eagles running back Saquon Barkley’s 92-yard touchdown run.

Penn State fans can expect more games against Washington in the future, thanks to their jump from the Pac-12 to the Big 10 in August. The two are scheduled to play again in 2026 and 2027.

Tonight’s game will be a ‘White Out’ at Beaver Stadium, meaning more than 110,000 fans in the stands will be decked out in all white.

The tradition dates back to 2004, when Guido D’Elia, then Penn State’s director of branding and communications, came up with a campaign in the early 2000s to get students excited again after several lackluster seasons. What started in the student section grew to include all fans in 2007, when everyone in Beaver Stadium wore white during Penn State’s 31-10 win over Notre Dame.

Since then, Penn State has hosted a White Out game every season except 2020, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the most memorable came in 2016, when Penn State upset No. 2 Ohio State in Franklin’s first win against a ranked opponent.

Penn (3-4, 1-3 Ivy) wants to keep the momentum going Saturday after dropping 38 points on Brown last week behind junior quarterback Liam O’Brien, who was making his first career start in place of injured senior Aidan Sayin. In the meantime, Temple (2-6, 0-3 American Athletic Conference) should emerge as a newly energized team against Tulane if they still hope to qualify for their first bowl game appearance since 2019.

Here’s a look at the local schools in action today: