The No. 1 Oregon Ducks (12-0, 9-0) look to keep their perfect season intact when they take on the No. 4 Penn State Nittany Lions (11-1, 8-1) in the 2024 Big Ten Championship Game on Saturday night. The Ducks have likely done enough to earn a spot in the expanded College Football Playoff field regardless of the outcome. Oregon blew out rival Washington 49-21 in their last outing. Penn State is likely going to be in the CFP field as well, with its lone loss of the season coming against Ohio State. PSU beat Maryland 44-7 in its last game. Both teams are 6-6 against the spread this season.

Kickoff at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET on CBS and Paramount+ (sign up and get a free 7-day trial). The Ducks are 3-point favorites in the latest Penn State vs. Oregon odds via SportsLine consensus, while the over/under for total points scored is 51. Oregon is a -171 (risk $171 to win $100) favorite on the money line, with Penn State listed as a +143 underdog (see up-to-date odds for every game this week on our college football odds page). 

Before you make any Big Ten Championship picks or any other college football predictions, you NEED to see which side proven SportsLine expert Jimmie Kaylor is on. 

Kaylor is a NFL, college football and DFS expert for SportsLine, who has covered the NFL and college football for close to a decade as a member of the Pro Football Writers of America. His background as a former college football All-American and NFL player gives him a unique perspective when building his fantasy lineups and locking in his betting picks. He has his finger on the pulse of the college football landscape and has been cashing in big for the last two years. 

Kaylor has destroyed the sportsbooks in college football the last two seasons, netting a whopping 68.54 units while posting a 221-144-6 record since Week 1 of the 2023 season. All of his picks have been featured on his SportsLine expert page or in his weekly bylined articles. Anyone who followed his picks is WAY UP!

Now, Kaylor has locked in a confident against-the-spread pick for Oregon vs. Penn State in the 2024 Big Ten Championship. We can tell you he's leaning Under on the point total, but he knows a crucial X-factor makes one side of the spread a MUST-BACK! You ABSOLUTELY need to see what it is before locking in any picks of your own.

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