McQueary, a fifth-year senior, also set a school record for total offense with 370 yards.
McQueary completed 21 of 36 passes before he was pulled with 12:38 left in the game. Joe Jurevicius was his favorite receiver, catching seven tosses for 108 yards and a touchdown. Chafie Fields had three receptions for 80 yards.
Penn State started slowly, leading 10-3 after one quarter, but put the game away in the second and third with 24 straight points. Pittsburgh had two late touchdowns.
Curtis Enis gained 85 yards on 20 carries and scored two touchdowns for Penn State.
No. 20 Iowa 66, Northern Iowa 0
Iowa coach Hayden Fry hopes the $300,000 Northern Iowa earned to play the Hawkeyes on Saturday was worth it.
"I imagine that they're happy for the money, but can you imagine how those players feel, 66-0?" Fry said.
Tavian Banks ran for a career-best 203 yards and two long touchdowns and caught one of Matt Sherman's three scoring passes to lead No. 20 Iowa to its most lopsided win since 1914.
'"We've got the numbers on them and obviously we get better people in recruiting," Fry said. "We wore them down with our numbers and with the heat and humidity."
Although the two teams aren't scheduled to play again in the near future, Northern Iowa defensive back Ty Talton said he hopes the series will resume.
"We didn't show how good we were today, and a lot of people will probably say Iowa shouldn't be playing a small school like (Division) I-AA Northern Iowa, but I think it's good for our program and their program," he said.
"We just didn't execute the way we should have executed. We made them look a lot better than they were," Talton said.
The Hawkeyes stunned Northern Iowa on the first play of the game with a fake reverse that resulted in Banks zipping untouched 63 yards down the left sideline just 20 seconds into the season opener.
"I don't know how I do it. I just do it," Banks said. "There's 10 other guys out there to block for me and to help me run like that."
It only got worse for Mike Dunbar, making his debut as Panthers coach after Terry Allen left to become coach at Kansas. Iowa scored on six of its first eight possessions in the first half.
Northern Iowa mistakes made Iowa's job easier.
"We can't beat ourselves," Dunbar said. "The game is hard enough as it is. We're going to play other tough opponents. We can't contribute to it.
"I think we'll learn from those mistakes and be able to regroup and improve from that. And we needed to play somebody - it just didn't have to be somebody so good."
It was the Hawkeyes' biggest victory margin and the Panthers' worst loss since Iowa's 95-0 drubbing of Northern Iowa, then known as Iowa Teachers College, in 1914.
It was the most points scored by Iowa since a 69-7 defeat of Texas-El Paso in 1986.
Iowa's 658 yards was the fifth-highest in school history.
Iowa led 38-0 and was at the Northern Iowa 1 when the half ended.
The Hawkeyes scored three touchdowns on the first play of a quarter, including Banks' TD run to open the game, his 40-yard scoring jaunt to start the second quarter and Randy Reiners' 26-yard touchdown pass to Richard Willock on the first play of the fourth quarter.
Banks' performance was the seventh-best in school history and eclipsed his previous best of 182 yards last year against Iowa State.
Banks' 40-yard scoring run was set up by Plez Atkins' end zone interception of Shane Fortney's pass with 2:29 left in the first quarter.
Fortney, a transfer from Washington, had four passes intercepted.
Banks' score staked Iowa to a 17-0 lead with 14:53 left in the half. Northern Iowa's Mike Furrey fumbled the ensuing kickoff and Ryan Hansen recovered for Iowa on the Panthers 27.
The Hawkeyes again struck quickly, with Sherman hitting wide-open Tim Dwight over the middle to push the lead to 24-0 with 14:29 left in the half.
The Panthers, ranked No. 4 in Division I-AA, were ineffective all day behind Fortney, a fifth-year senior.
Wisconsin 28, Boise State 24
The Wisconsin Badgers struggled without star running back Ron Dayne on Saturday before shaking off heavy underdog Boise State 28-24 on quarterback Mike Samuel's 12-yard touchdown scramble with just 49 seconds left.
Samuel was benched for 2 1/2 quarters after throwing two interceptions - and he lost a fumble upon his return late in the fourth quarter before an indignant crowd of 72,209 at Camp Randall Stadium.
But he came back to set up the winning score with a 28-yard scramble on third-and-12 to the Boise State 25 after somehow slipping the grasp of blitzing cornerback Ross Farris in the backfield.
Boise State was a 36-point underdog. But with Dayne watching from the sideline with a shoulder injury, the Broncos (0-2), who lost by 40 points to Division I-AA Cal State-Northridge last week, nearly pulled off the biggest upset in their history.
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Penn State quarterback Mike McQueary completed 21 of 36 passes for a school record 366 yards as the top-ranked Nittany Lions held off Pittsburgh.
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