The collection of college football media that has Penn State as the preseason No. 1 team or at least the team to beat continues to grow.
Phil Steele has Penn State as his No. 1 team and feels this squad will capture the program’s first national championship since 1986.
Joining Steele is ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky, who on their morning show Get Up picked Penn State as the best team in the country.
In the segment “Heather’s Heaters,” the question was will the SEC fail to win the national championship in a third consecutive season, and Orlovsky agreed.
“I think Penn State is one of the if not the best team in college football,” Orlovsky said. “Obviously Ohio State will be there, we have to see what happens about the quarterback position (Ohio State has not named a starter between Julian Sayin and Lincoln Keinholz). I think Illinois will be awesome in the Big Ten. There are a lot of players in the Big Ten.”
Orlovsky mentioned the SEC will be amongst the top conferences. The SEC won six of the first 10 national championships in the first College Football Playoff format.
Add Nittany Sports Now as a preferred source in Google! Click here to add us.Clemson being a team that can contend for a national championship has LSU in Week 1, a team Orlovsky feels will be a thorn in Big Ten and SEC teams’ side. Steele has Clemson finishing No. 2 in the country.
Penn State opens its season August 30 against Nevada in Beaver Stadium.
