Essentials WHAT #2 Michigan (9-0) vs #10 Penn State (8-1) WHERE Beaver Stadium State College, PA WHEN Noon Eastern THE LINE M –4.5 (Vegas) M –6 (Bill C) TELEVISION FOX PBP: Gus Johnson Color: Joel Klatt TICKETS From $201. WEATHER cloudy minimal wind mid-40s Overview It is November 10th. The season starts tomorrow. Jim Harbaugh is on a plane; the Big Ten hasn't said a dang thing. Welcome to the silliest of all seasons. Michigan takes on a Penn State program that has consistently been the third best in the league post-COVID. For them this has meant a lot of beating up on minnows and failing to take down the Great White Whales of the Big Ten. Massive hype for the PSU-OSU game earlier this year petered out into a grim slog where neither team could move the ball unless Marvin Harrison Jr had it. MHJ does not play for Penn State. As soon as OSU got bailed out by a holding flag on Kalen King on what otherwise would have been a game-changing sack-strip touchdown, it was game over. OSU punched it in, and Penn State never looked threatening until the game was well over. After that PSU got in a fourth quarter tie with Indiana before deleting Maryland football from existence. They enter at 8-1 but if they lose this game the grumbles from PSU fans about never getting over the hump are going to get loud. [AFTER THE JUMP: same OL as always]