Penn State Football took to social media to call on fans to show up to both Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff pregame show and ESPN’s College Gameday pregame show Saturday after calls from fans to boycott the Big Noon Kickoff pregame show.

I'd love to see the Big Noon set be a ghost town

— CFB Tracker (@MatchupTracker) October 28, 2024

In a message to fans, Penn State Football announced “CALLING ON NITTANY NATION. We need you to show up & show out at BOTH live shows on Saturday. Let’s show the country we have the BEST fans & atmosphere on 2 national broadcasts.”

Both Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff and ESPN’s College Gameday will be in Happy Valley for the first time together since Big Noon Kickoff started appearing on location full-time in 2022.

ESPN’s College Gameday has been on location for the Penn State Ohio State game a record 13 times in history. Penn State has also hosted Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff four times, including this season when Penn State hosted UCLA in October.

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A number of fans have called for a boycott of Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff after the decision by Fox to air Penn State’s top five matchup with Ohio State in the noon broadcast slot, instead of allowing Penn State to host its annual whiteout spectacle during a night primetime broadcast.

Boycott BNK. Enough of this

— Aaron Meyer (@theaaronmeyer) October 28, 2024

Boycott Fox. Go to college game day. Bring signs for a Josh Pate!

— Noah Pelkowski (@steeleratc40) October 28, 2024

Boycott Big Noon. #Turmoil

— Drew English (@DrewfusMcGoofus) October 28, 2024

State College’s family clothesline also made the decision to sell “Big Noon Games Suck” shirts in protest of the network’s choice of kickoff time.

You know what, they’re absolutely right, we need to show up and show out at BOTH shows!! Don’t forget to stop by The Family Clothesline and pick up one of these before you go! https://t.co/WrmnoluoNP pic.twitter.com/tazkipsydV

— The Penn State Troll 🦁🧌 (@ThePSUTroll) October 28, 2024

As Penn State’s football program points out in the call to action message, having two national networks on campus presents a big opportunity for Penn State to showcase Happy Valley in a positive light to a national audience.

The game this weekend against Ohio State has the opportunity to be one of the largest crowds in Beaver Stadium history and is the highest-ranked matchup in the stadium since 1999.

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Robert Shields covers Penn State Football for Nittany Central. As a Penn State graduate, Robert has covered Penn State football since 2019, but had been a fan of the Nittany Lions for well over a decade. During his undergraduate education, Robert was a manager in the athletic department of a division III school, working in various aspects of athletic management at football, soccer, baseball, basketball, and lacrosse games.

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