It's just a hunch-- if Michigan State beats Penn State Saturday I have the Spartans in the January 2nd Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, Texas perhaps playing Oklahoma.  That's a 9pm kick on ESPN.  If MSU loses to Penn State, I have the Spartans in the Insight Bowl in Phoenix playing perhaps Iowa State-- both teams would likely be 6-6 and that's an NFL Network telecast and would be kind of a dud as a bowl game-- but that's probably a better alternative for the Spartans than playing Temple at Ford Field in the Little Caesar's Pizza Bowl. 

     I just don't think MSU wants to go to Detroit-- I think MSU wants the players to go to a warm weather site to help recruiting, even though the match up in Phoenix wouldn't be all that great.  But we'll see.  MSU would be an underdog by a little bit, to Oklahoma, but favored in Phoenix against almost anyone else.

     But you tell me, can MSU beat Penn State?  I think the Spartans can clearly win only because Penn State never plays very well in East Lansing and I don't think the match up is as treacherous as it was last week at Purdue.  The Boilermakers can pass better than Penn State-- and that's MSU defensive faux pas.  Saturday's game will have more defense than people expect, I think and mistakes will decide the outcome.  Penn State is a three point favorite-- if it was at Penn State, then MSU would be about a ten point underdog-- MSU never wins at Penn State-- but East Lansing is different.