Penn State moved up in the College Football Playoff rankings, setting up one of the highest-ranked matchups of the college football season in Saturday’s Big Ten championship game.

Conference championship week has arrived in college football, as the season’s final games await. The Big Ten will be decided when the Penn State Nittany Lions and Oregon Ducks showdown in Indianapolis at 8:00 PM on CBS this Saturday.

Oregon and Penn State will face off this weekend in the 2024 Big Ten Championship Game. Here’s what the oddsmakers are predicting for the matchup. Oregon remains college football’s only undefeated team at the FBS level,

Penn State football's Abdul Carter is regarded as the best defender in the Big Ten. The Nittany Lions junior, who switched positions this season, was named the league's top defensive lineman and top defender, overall, Tuesday by the annual vote of its coaches and media members. Carter led an extensive list of Penn State All-Big Ten performers.

Carter was named the Big Ten’s Nagurski-Woodson Defensive Player of the Year and the Smith-Brown Defensive Lineman of the Year. The announcement came Tuesday afternoon on the Big Ten Network, where all the conference’s end-of-season awards were announced.