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Vegas Big Ten Predictions
Akron at Penn State
Line: Penn State by 14
Penn State had a great win in a weird game against UCF last week in Ireland and found out a lot about its team. The Nittany Lions have a coach who can manage the clock, a quarterback who makes plays when needed, and a kicker who has finally turned into Mr. reliable. But they still had an issue with turnovers and stalling drives, and that has to be improved upon if they are going to make significant noise this season. This week’s game is another good test for that.
Akron shut out Howard last week 41-0 in a complete game, and although it was only Howard, they had a total of 400 passing yards and gave up only 68 passing yards. This pass defense will look to force Christian Hackenberg to make erratic plays in an attempt to pull off the upset this week.
Prediction
Penn State will build off of last week and won’t play a great game, but they’ll do more than enough to win the game. Without the odd time change and the all around weird game setting, they should have no trouble putting Akron away, but it won’t be a huge blowout.
Penn State: 31 Akron: 14