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In tight vote, Michigan gets slim nod over Penn State from statewide media

ALTOONA, Pa. -- Most Penn State games are relatively easy to predict a winner, which is why we usually have a vast majority of picks going one way or another.

Not this week.

The Nittany Lions and Michigan are essentially a pick 'em game, with the Wolverines favored by 1 1/2 points, and our panel of Penn State beat writers across the state are about as evenly split as it gets.

We have 15 pickers this week, and most of the early picks I received were for Michigan. It looked for a while like the Wolverines would run away with it, but a lot of later picks came in for Penn State.