Penn State and Ohio State will meet in the biggest Big Ten game of the year to date this weekend in Columbus. The 6-0 Nittany Lions travel to Ohio Stadium, a real house of horrors for Penn State over the years, to face the 6-0 Buckeyes with both teams having eyes on the inside track to the Big Ten East Division championship. Both teams have young star quarterbacks on the rise this season that will take the spotlight this weekend.
The most unique part of this quarterback battle is Penn State’s Drew Allar is a former Ohio high school star and Ohio State’s Kyle McCord was a standout on the Pennsylvania high school football fields. Now the two are intertwined in one of the Big Ten’s upcoming QB battles.
Penn State and Ohio State will often be familiar with each other’s players after pursuing many of the same players on the recruiting trail. There may be no more accurate suggestion when it comes to the quarterbacks. Being the star quarterbacks in their respective states put Allar firmly on Ohio State’s radar and McCord on Penn State’s. But as fate would gave it, they each went to the neighboring state’s powerhouse program.
So far, those decisions have seemed to work out.
McCord is in his third season with Ohio State but his first as the starting quarterback. The New Jersey native who thrived at St. Joseph’s Prep in Philadelphia has finally gotten back in sync with former high school teammate wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr., and the Ohio State offense is thriving more because of it. McCord has also helped lead his Buckeyes to a massive road victory in a defensive battle at Notre Dame.
Coming into this week, McCord is the Big Ten’s second-leading passing leader with 1,651 passing yards and 11 touchdowns with just one interception thrown.
Penn State’s Allar is also in his first year as the starting…
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