College football championship week oddly specific predictions: Penn State? Yes, Penn State
New York TimesIt was a really fun regular season trying to make educated guesses about what would happen week-to-week. But first, here are this week’s conference championship picks with the stat stuffers included in the capsules: Friday Conference USA: Western Kentucky at Jacksonville State Jacksonville State is the first program to reach a bowl game in each of its first two seasons at the FBS level since Marshall in 1997 and 1998. Arizona State hasn’t won one since 2007 — four years before the first Pac-12 Championship Game was played. Tyler Warren scores on a late touchdown run, and Penn State wins its first Big Ten championship since 2016 in a stunner. I said Arizona State’s Cam Skattebo would run for 190-plus yards, score two touchdowns and Arizona State would cover the 8.5-point spread against rival Arizona.