DALLAS -- For a couple of schools that will play football for only the third time in next week's playoff opener in Happy Valley, SMU and Penn State share a lot of history. Starting with the '48 Cotton Bowl, the first bowl game integrated. Though SMU agreed to the arrangement, it didn't go over well locally. The Nittany Lions bivouacked at a Naval Air Station outside Dallas because no hotels in town would have them. Wally Triplett, one of the two African Americans on the visiting team, repaid the city's inhospitality with a touchdown in a 13-13 tie.

The second game, in 1978, a 26-21 Penn State win, was notable mostly because it furthered an undefeated regular season marred by a loss to Alabama in the Sugar Bowl.

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