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====Penn State==== Although longtime [[Penn State Nittany Lions football|Penn State]] head coach [[Joe Paterno]] was regarded by some as one who did everything he could to avoid running up the score, such as in a 63–10 win over [[Illinois Fighting Illini football|Illinois]] in 2005 where Penn State held a 56–3 halftime lead, Pitt partisan journalist [[Beano Cook]] claimed he made an exception in 1985 against [[Penn State–Pittsburgh football rivalry|hated rival]] [[Pittsburgh Panthers football|Pitt]]. The game was well in hand with the score 31–0 when the assistants called the first string team off the field. Paterno supposedly immediately ordered them back in, saying, "I want to bury Pitt."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archives/article_19b4cad4-03a6-592b-832c-54cb5879e3cf.html?mode=jqm|title=Rivalry resumed|date=6 September 1997 }}</ref> Paterno's 1991 Penn State team is often accused of running it up on [[Cincinnati Bearcats football|Cincinnati]] 81–0, but this was refuted by the Bearcats' coach [[Tim Murphy (American football coach)|Tim Murphy]], who said "I think Joe's a class guy and I don't believe he'd do that in a hundred years," Murphy said. "We made too many mistakes even for a first game of the season and that's my fault. I'm embarrassed, not Joe Paterno."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-08-sp-2993-story.html|title = Archives|website = [[Los Angeles Times]]| date=8 September 1991 }}</ref>
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