Preview: #3 Penn State vs. #4 Ohio State in an Epic Big Ten Clash

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00:00Let's get you set for a new college football weekend. It is

00:06week number 10, the first Saturday in November in a game

00:10of the year for potential on Saturday afternoon, noon

00:15Eastern time kick in State College, Pennsylvania. It's

00:19number three Penn State. It's number four Ohio State. The

00:23Buckeyes a three and a half point favorite in Happy Valley

00:27total has worked its way down by a point forty-five and a

00:31hook. Then let's start with narrative because of course

00:34narrative is going to factor into this handicap, the outcome

00:38and the reaction in a large way. Ryan Day is two and six

00:43against AP top five teams and it's time at the helm of this

00:47Ohio State football program. Not good enough. James Franklin

00:51is one in nine against Ohio State during his decade at Penn

00:56State. Now year number eleven and three and seventeen outright

01:01against AP top ten foes. Also not good enough. So for which

01:06coach and program does the narrative sadly continue by the

01:11end of Saturday afternoon? I mean, I don't like the way Ohio

01:18State is playing right now. That said, Penn State, if

01:23Brayden Locke doesn't throw that pick six, I don't know

01:25that Penn State wins that game last week. I mean, that was

01:28just a gut punch kick in the groin kind of, you know, for

01:32Wisconsin backers last week. Me being one of them, of course,

01:34otherwise, I still wouldn't be upset about it. But you know,

01:38I gotta give the nod here to Penn State just a little bit,

01:43especially with a three and a half. Like this feels like a

01:46field goal game all around. Like there's nothing about this

01:48that doesn't scream it's going to be tight. Ryan Day is always

01:51sort of choked in these big moments, particularly on the

01:53road. You know, if this game was at the horseshoe, it'd be a

01:55completely different conversation. But you know, you

01:58get a 12 o'clock kick, which favors Penn State. I think more

02:01than anything being in their their own turf and drew out.

02:05It's been really good. You know, he's taking care of the

02:07football. I know he was banged up last week. I assume given

02:10this number is where it is that he's playing again this week

02:12and after two tough road wins, they come back home in a

02:16favorable spot and all of a sudden, the Ohio State offense

02:19is starting to look a little bit human. Like when you look

02:21at what happened last week at home against Nebraska, you

02:24know, is it the wake-up call that the Buckeyes needed to

02:26say, hey, we need to play better or is it the reality of

02:30guess what? You're finally playing a team that you know,

02:34you're finally starting to play teams that are of the same ilk

02:37of you. No disrespect to Iowa, but on the road, they're not

02:41the same team in Michigan State's offense is not very

02:43good, aka bad, aka they don't score a ton. So the last three

02:48weeks, the last two weeks in this week will tell us really

02:50what Ohio State is and I think we find out that Penn State

02:52here, even if they get a loss here, it'll be one of those

02:56that the committee will look at favorably upon because they're

02:58going to make this, they're going to make life hell for

03:00three hours for Ohio State on Saturday.

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