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Week 5 GameDay Guest Picker Odds for Oregon vs. Penn State
Nothing sums up the modern age of college football better than two schools located 2,000 miles apart playing each other in a conference game on a Saturday night, with the Penn State Nittany Lions and Oregon Ducks doing just that this weekend.
When the third ranked Nittany Lions and No. 6 Ducks square off inside Beaver Stadium in Happy Valley at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time Saturday, they’ll have done so hours after ESPN’s CFB pregame show (College GameDay) wrapped up its live show from the contest, with Rece Davis and the gang making their way to Penn State from nine to noon (Eastern time) on Sept. 27.
With all that in mind, the team at PennStakes.com broke down the odds on who will be this week’s guest picker on GameDay, with a pair of Nittany Lion alums leading the way.
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Week 5 College GameDay Picker Odds
Celebrity Guest Picker | Percentage Chance | Odds |
Keegan-Michael Key, Comedian & Penn State Alum | 25.0% | +300 |
Ty Burrell, Actor & Penn State Alum | 22.2% | +350 |
Katie Schumacher-Cawley, Penn State Volleyball Coach | 9.1% | +1000 |
Cael Sanderson, Penn State Wrestling Coach | 9.1% | +1000 |
Bo Nickal, MMA Fighter & Penn State Alum | 7.4% | +1250 |
Lisa Salters, ESPN Reporter & Penn State Alum | 6.3% | +1500 |
Katie Feeney, ESPN Influencer & Penn State Alum | 6.3% | +1500 |
The Field | 14.3% | +600 |
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Who Joins GameDay At Penn State?
Our two leading picks to be this week’s guest picker on GameDay attended Penn State, with 54-year-old comedian (and James Franklin doppelganger) Keegan-Michael Key (+300) and Ty Burrell (+350) leading the way to join ESPN’s pregame show on Saturday morning.
Key has been a guest picker four times, making him the second most popular person on the show, celebrity wise, behind Charles Barkley, who has been a guest picker six times in total, while Burrell has been on the program once, doing so on Nov. 6, 2010.
Outside of those two comedic actors, keep an eye on a pair of Penn State coaches, in Katie Schumacher-Cawley (volleyball) and Cael Sanderson (wrestling), with both listed at +1000 to be this week’s guest picker, while MMA fighter and Penn State alum Bo Nickal is next up, at +1250.
Finally, two GameDay longshots include longtime ESPN reporter and Penn State alum Lisa Salters and influencer at the ‘Four-Letter Network’ Katie Feeney, with both women listed at +1500 to join GameDay on Saturday.
How Has Penn State Fared on GameDay?
Saturday’s GameDay appearance will be the 11th in University Park, dating back to the show’s Aug. 28, 1999, appearance ahead of the Nittany Lions’ 41-7 demolition of No. 4 Arizona, with the most recent appearance being in 2024, when the show came for the school’s Big Ten clash with Ohio State on Nov. 2. Overall, Penn State has gone 5-5 in games that GameDay has appeared at, with victories over Arizona (1999), Ohio State (2005), Michigan (2017 and 2019) and Auburn (2021), to go with losses to Ohio State (2005, 2018, 2020 and 2024) and Iowa in 2009.
This week, oddsmakers from DraftKings Sportsbook Pennsylvania are giving Penn State -175 moneyline odds against the Ducks, with a 3.5-point spread in favor of the hometown Nittany Lions in the sixth matchup between the two programs all time dating back to 1960, with Oregon winning last year’s Big Ten title game over Penn State, 45-37 and beating the Keystone State stalwarts in their lone trip to Beaver Stadium by a 22-14 final score way back on Oct. 3, 1964.
College GameDay Trips To Happy Valley:
1999: 41-7 win over No. 4 Arizona
2005: 17-10 win over No. 6 Ohio State
2007: 37-17 loss to No. 1 Ohio State
2009: 21-10 loss to Iowa
2017: 42-13 win over No. 19 Michigan
2018: 27-26 loss to No. 4 Ohio State
2019: 28-21 win over No. 16 Michigan
2020: 38-25 loss to No. 3 Ohio State
2021: 28-20 win over No. 22 Auburn
2024: 20-13 loss to No. 4 Ohio State
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