OSU a heavy road favorite vs. Michigan State

It was quite a day not only for Penn State, but for the rest of College football.

“They always have a chip on their shoulder when the Buckeyes are in town, and it’s going to be the same way this Saturday”, Ohio State center Pat Elflein said.

Speight’s play throughout the season has been strongly consistent, proving Jim Harbaugh’s genius decision of naming him the starting quarterback back in September.

So what exactly does that say about this college football season? One way is where he will start his run out of the tunnel before the game.

The picture will look differently if Penn State wins the league and what happens in other conferences will also have an impact on the final selections to come on December 4.

“It’s comforting to be at the front right next to the man in charge”.

Linebacker Curtis Grant said, “I’ll never forget that because I thought a year ago we were going to win it all”. The Wolverines host IN this weekend before traveling to Ohio State.

On Saturday, the No. 2 Buckeyes visit the Spartans, who are coming off a shutout victory against Rutgers that snapped a seven-game losing streak.

Promising young guard Connor McGovern also could miss the game. “It’s been kind of tough to figure out what the problem has been”.

Reminder: Notre Dame is part of the ACC bowl pool. Then it was kind of a negative snowball effect.

The Boilermakers’ senior class has won one Big Ten game at Ross-Ade Stadium during their careers – a 2015 win over Nebraska – and have collected just three league wins during that time, both at IL.

Clemson and Washington are still in good shape as long as they keep winning behind Alabama. The freshman didn’t disappoint after throwing for 338 yards on 25 of 42 passing with one touchdown and interception. He has completed 61 percent of his passes. The first-time starter mustered his heroic feat on the road to added to this already impressive feat. The talent is there, but it just hasn’t performed up to expectations this season. While he had more yards (1,622) and touches (142) in his sophomore season, he only hit pay dirt 10 times that season.

Michigan State outrushed Ohio State 203 yards to 86, led in passing yards 91 to 46, and enjoyed an advantage in crucial third-down conversions, 7-of-15 to 4-of-14.

“That would be the most hard question the committee has to deal with”, Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl president and CEO Gary Stokan said this week.

While he doesn’t hide from the disappointment of this season, Dantonio has also consistently praised how the group has handled the results of it.

“He’s done an outstanding job”. The question now is: Can the injury-riddle Nittany Lions (8-2, 6-1 Big Ten) limp through it? Whether it was with his arm or his feet, the quarterback was one of the main reasons why the Buckeyes dominated Maryland on Saturday. And I will say it again it should be Louisville in the top 4 instead of MI.

This is a plus for Ohio State and fifth-ranked Louisville, who both have big wins but don’t control their own destiny (Penn State and Clemson losses respectively). But his interest is analytical, not nostalgic. “If it’s up to me to sacrifice myself to take on a block and give a tackle to somebody else, I’m going to do it”. “But I guess the biggest thing is we’ve never stopped fighting”. “He knows how to go out there and do what he has to do to put us in a position to win”. That’s probably the biggest thing.