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What is the Penn State-Oregon point spread? Big Ten title game odds are out

Greg Pickelby:Greg Pickel•12/01/24•

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Nov 23, 2024; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Penn State Nittany Lions quarterback Drew Allar (15) looks on during the second quarter against the Minnesota Golden Gophers at Huntington Bank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matt Krohn-Imagn Images

Penn State football is now six days away from playing in its first Big Ten title game since 2016. The last time it was there, it toppled Wisconsin. This time around, it will face conference newcomer Oregon. The No. 1 Ducks are 12-0 and meet the 11-1 Nittany Lions at 8 p.m. ET Saturday at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. CBS is televising the game. Now, betting information is out for it.

FanDuel has installed head coach Dan Lanning’s team as a 3.5-point favorite. It lists the betting total at 50.5 points. DraftKings has the same spread. The odds make sense. Entering Saturday, ESPN’s SP+ projected the Ducks as a four-point favorite on a neutral field. So, the current number is in line with that.

Oregon finished its regular season by blasting Washington Saturday at home. The Nittany Lions, of course, toppled Maryland 44-7 at Beaver Stadium. The team was careful not to focus on the future before taking care of the Terrapins, even if it could have known before the game that a win equaled a trip to Indy. Many players said they were unaware of that until the Beaver Stadium scoreboard revealed the news at the end of the game.

“Obviously you can look at the big picture, but if you’re going to get to somewhere, it takes the steps, and focusing on the steps is kind of how you get to where you want to go,” tight end Tyler Warren said. “So I think we’ve done a really good of that.

“I think we’re really close [as a team], and then just just kind of being the same team each week and being able to approach each game is as important as the last. I think we did a great job, even through the ups and downs thing. Kind of consistent, the same team the whole time, was really big for us.”

Penn State-Oregon history

This will mark the fifth all-time meeting between the two schools. Two have been in bowl games and the other two have come during the regular season. The Nittany Lions won the last meeting between the two schools, 38-20, in the Rose Bowl to end the 1994 season. The two sides met first in 1960, with PSU winning the Liberty Bowl in Philadelphia 41-12. Oregon has won one of the two regular season meetings. Penn State took a 17-7 contest in Portland in 1963 before the Ducks beat the Lions in State College 22-14 in 1964.

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