In playoff projections news, Penn State football’s Nov. 2 game against Ohio State will be one of the most anticipated of the season and, if things keep going how they are, will be perhaps the most anticipated game in the history of the series.
Ohio State is 5-0 and ranked No. 2.
Penn State is 5-0 and ranked fourth.
If each team wins its next two games— Penn State at USC and Wisconsin, Ohio State at No. 3 Oregon and against Nebraska at home— there’s a realistic chance the top two teams in the country will be in Happy Valley Nov. 2.
According to at least one College Football analyst, that won’t be the only time the two teams play this season.
Insider Brett McMurphy of the Action Network has Penn State making it to the Playoff in his projections as the No. 6 seed, beating No. 11 LSU at home and No. 3 Miami (ACC champ) on a neutral site before meeting the Buckeyes in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl.
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Here, he has Ohio State, which would be a five-point favorite, moving onto the national title game, where it plays Texas.
Elsewhere in the Big Ten, McMurphy has Oregon making it as the No. 7 seed.
This would set up a meeting with… wait for it… fellow Big Ten foe Ohio State, who McMurphy has as the No. 2 seed and conference champion, in the quarterfinal. Ohio State-Oregon I is scheduled for this Saturday night at 7:30 in Eugene on NBC, and it will be a big game.
Penn State has a big game, too. It takes on USC in the Coliseum with kickoff scheduled for 3:30 on CBS. It’s the first time the teams have met since USC joined the Big Ten.
