Amare Campbell returned a fumble 61 yards for a touchdown to lift Penn State to a 40-36 Big Ten win over Rutgers Saturday in Piscataway, N.J.
The win makes the Nittany Lions (6-6) bowl eligible. Penn State has beaten the Scarlet Knights 18 straight times.
Rutgers (5-7) still had a chance to go ahead when Athan Kaliakmanis hit KJ Duff on a 42-yard pass to the Penn State 36 with 5:46 left in the game.
The drive stalled at the Penn State 28, however, and Campbell and Zion Tracy brought Kaliakmanis down on fourth-and-1 to turn the ball over on downs.
Kaytron Allen then all but put the game away with a 50-yard run to the Rutgers 28 with 2:24 left.
The Scarlet Knights were ahead 36-33 and had driven to the Penn State 32 with 7:27 left when the ball slipped out of Kaliakmanis' hand and Campb

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