College GameDay stands behind Penn State in White Out battle

The ESPN College GameDay cast made its picks for the No. 3 Penn State v. No. 6 Oregon White Out game at Beaver Stadium.

LaVar Arrington served as the College GameDay guest picker on Saturday in Happy Valley. The former Penn State linebacker immediately backed his alma mater when he joined at the end of the show and rolled with the blue and white all the way through his pick.

It was no shocker that Arrington went with his Nittany Lions (3-0) and showed off a huge LBU (Linebacker University) chain while he was at it.

"10 toes down, Penn State is standing on business today," Arrington said before even joining the table with the cast.

He also said there wasn't enough positivity surrounding the No. 3 team in the country. Despite all the doubt looming over it, Desmond Howard was the only one to choose the Ducks. Nick Saban, Kirk Herbstreit, and Pat McAfee all went with Penn State.

Saban, Herbstreit, and McAfee pick Penn State, Howard goes Oregon

A general consensus across the board, including Howard, is the offense for the Nittany Lions played vanilla for the first three weeks, but that all goes away today. The College GameDay cast agreed that offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki's creativity will be in full effect.

Kotelnicki told ESPN that the shyness of running backs Nicholas Singleton and Kaytron Allen is gone moving forward. The duo wasn't nearly as explosive as anticipated from the jump, but since Penn State didn't have to pull out all the stops to beat Nevada, Florida International, and Villanova, their star power didn't need to be all or nothing. Production with the wide receivers peeked through a little in the first three weeks. The bye week in Week 4 should have helped clean up misconnections and strengthen chemistry between the wideouts and quarterback Drew Allar.

"[Penn State's] going to throw the kitchen sink at the Oregon Ducks, but the Oregon Ducks are at Happy Valley," Howard reasoned his pick. "And that means clear and present danger for the Nittany Lions. Quack, quack."

As for the others, the kitchen sink and throwing a nighttime White Out at Oregon while it's at it made them give Penn State their picks for Week 5.

Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET and the game can be watched live on NBC or streamed on Peacock. The top six matchup will prove whether the Nittany Lions can handle the pressure and are a team to take seriously. Whichever Big Ten rival pulls out the win will greatly improve its resume when considering the College Football Playoff.