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Bill O’Brien Teases ‘Potential’ Home-&-Home Series Between Penn State Football & Boston College

It looks like a 2014 Pinstripe Bowl rematch might be in the works, folks.

Current Boston College head coach and former Penn State football head coach Bill O’Brien said a home-and-home series between the Eagles and the Nittany Lions could be in the works on “The Bill O’Brien podcast.” O’Brien also teased the possibility of playing one game at Gillette Stadium, the home field of the New England Patriots.

“There’s a potential, by the way, a potential of a Boston College-Penn State home-and-home deal in a couple of years,” O’Brien said on his podcast with Jon Materparel, a Boston College broadcaster. “Maybe we could play them in Gillette…We’ll talk to Mr. Kraft about that, see if he would go for that, and then play them up in Happy Valley.”

Penn State already has its three out-of-conference opponents scheduled through 2028, featuring matchups with Nevada, FIU, Villanova, Marshall, Temple, Buffalo, Syracuse, Delaware, Ball State, and UMass. However, the Nittany Lions could cancel one of those games to fit in Boston College.

O’Brien served as Penn State’s head coach from 2012 to 2013 after he took over in the wake of Joe Paterno’s firing. O’Brien left to take the head coaching job with the Houston Texans after the 2013 season, paving the way for James Franklin to take the head coaching job in 2014. O’Brien, who has since worked Alabama, the Patriots, and Ohio State, though he never coached a game with the Buckeyes, went 15-9 with Penn State.

Penn State has played Boston College 24 times, most recently in that 2014 Pinstripe Bowl. The Nittany Lions won 31-30 in their first bowl game since the 2012 Jerry Sandusky scandal and the following actions from the NCAA.

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Joe is a senior journalism major at Penn State and Onward State's managing editor. He writes about everything Penn State and is single-handedly responsible for the 2017 Rose Bowl. If you see him at Cafe 210, please buy him a Miami pitcher. For dumb stuff, follow him on Twitter (iamjoelister). For serious stuff, email him ([email protected]).

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