Penn State has nothing to gain in this game. It's a veteran team favored by 40+ points who can coast through its nonconference schedule. The Lions get up early, bury the Pack, and sit on it in the second half.

The tough-luck Wolfpack led the country in one-score losses last season (6), otherwise coach Jeff Choate's first season with the struggling program might have ended with a bowl bid. One of those losses came amid a fourth-quarter collapse in the season opener as a 4-TD underdog against an SMU club that would eventually reach the CFP. Penn State is coming off a Final Four season and expected to compete for another behind Heisman candidate Drew Allar. The only sweat in this one could be the spread, but this number is too boldly disrespectful to a Nevada club that doesn't have to do too much right to cover it.