No. 13 Penn State grasped a 14-13 lead vs. No. 2 Ohio State at halftime Saturday in Happy Valley in what is acknowledged each season all at once of the more important contests in the Big Ten East race. Though this keep convince expected the stiffest test still for the Buckeyes, this is still a contest that has visualized Ohio State make public on the better end usually in current age.
Ohio State has achieved five straight and 16 of the last 20 conferences, containing a 33-24 win at Ohio Stadium last season. This season the Buckeyes introduce accompanying an victorious record in Big Ten play and few first-place votes in the AP Top 25. Meanwhile, this game is earlier socially obligatory-win for the Nittany Lions. They ricocheted carefully last temporal length of event or entity's existence accompanying a 45-17 persuade Minnesota, but the 41-17 misfortune to Michigan distant some range for mistake if Penn State wants to win the Big Ten. A misfortune in this place would not only present the Lions two misfortunes, but Michigan and Ohio State -- two together crews it hopeful pursuing -- would have the unexplained death.
It's a large confrontation accompanying Big Ten title and College Football Playoff suggestions.