Is the jinx on Penn State? We will find out in about seven hours, but there is no question which team is the favorite to win this afternoon’s Big Ten contest in Los Angeles between Penn State and USC. The Nittany Lions are the betting favorite as of the morning of the game, which has been the case all week, but the line has shifted more in favor of the home team as the week has progressed. Still, Penn State has been the trendy pick overall to come out on top in the first Big Ten matchup between these two historic programs.
The matchup between Penn State and USC was among the games being picked by the staff of ESPN College GameDay on Saturday morning, live from Eugene, Oregon with the big Ohio State-Oregon game headlining the Big Ten slate in Week 6. Joining the staff was Kaitlin Olson of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” and a noted Oregon alum. But before making their picks for the game of the day in the Big Ten, the entire staff and Olson made their picks for the Penn State-USC game.
Desmond Howard, who has been known to pick against Penn State, may have surprised some with his Penn State pick against the Trojans.
Nick Saban followed Howard in picking Penn State to come out on top of this one.
Celebrity guest picker Kaitlin Olson, perhaps influenced a tad by Oregon’s disdain for USC as longtime conference foes in the Pac-12, also picked Penn State to win today.
Pat McAfee continued the trend of picking Penn State by rolling with the Nittany Lions, who opened the season by defeating McAfee’s beloved West Virginia Mountaineers.
Kirk Herbstreit, on a plane to the Oklahoma-Texas game, made it a clean sweep for Penn State in the pregame picks.
how do you feel about everyone picking the Nittany Lions for this road trip at USC? Big Ten teams are 1-8 when traveling across the country this season, but that stat doesn’t seem to affect the GameDay crew’s thoughts on today’s matchup.
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