College Football 2020: 6 teams that will be on upset alert in Week 14

4. Penn State (at Rutgers)

Well, here’s one I didn’t expect to be talking about in September.

I don’t know what Greg Schiano is selling, but clearly the Rutgers athletes are buying.

Penn State finally put one in the win column last week, defeating Michigan (although that’s not saying much) last weekend.

Rutgers, on the other hand, has double the amount of wins as Penn State, two, which on the flip side is saying a lot because Rutgers has been the epitome of awful for much of the last six years.

The Scarlet Knights are far from competitive in the Big Ten East, but a win over even the worst Penn State team possibly ever would go a long way.

Penn State has a definite advantage in players. They have more stars, size and speed than Rutgers. But Rutgers seems to have more of the intangibles: drive, desire and a will to be the best, even if it’s not successful. That’s not to say Penn State doesn’t have those too, but look at expectations versus results on both sides and you’ll see a clear story.

If the Rutgers defense can pressure Sean Clifford and make him throw some bad passes, which he’s almost guaranteed to do even with no pressure, Rutgers can win the turnover battle. The Penn State run game has been wildly inconsistent, so forcing them to run could work in their favor as well.