LINE Penn State -19.5
PICK Penn State
All that weather that’s screwing up Buffalo and Western New York won’t do anything to New Jersey this weekend. It’s supposed to be a lovely crisp day in the 40s.
That’s fine. The better conditions here favor the better team.
Rutgers is always capable of pulling off something crazy defensively, but it hasn’t done it in a while. Even when it went on a run of eight takeaways in three weeks it went 0-3.
But this is more about Penn State.
Just like I don’t really see what the big whoop is with Texas, I’m not quite sure why everyone isn’t digging this Penn State team.
Yeah it lost to Ohio State – but it was right there in the game until the end. Yeah it got flattened by Michigan, but that’s a terrific team that got into a groove. There hasn’t been any issue against anyone else outside of the opener against Purdue.
On the contrary, all of the other wins were blowouts except for the 17-7 monsoon game against Northwestern.
Rutgers doesn’t score enough – it struggled to get more than two touchdowns a game – Penn State blew out Auburn and Indiana on the road, the running game is working, and the passing attack cranked up 300 yards for three straight games before it didn’t have to against Maryland.
Penn State has won six games by 20 points or more and did it in three of the last four games.
And finally …
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