Howard at Penn
PHILADELPHIA (Interstat) — Howard will be the visiting team and Penn will be the home team Saturday for an NCAA Football Championship Division game at Franklin Field. The Bison enter with a 2-3 record, while the Quakers are 1-2. The forecast at game time calls for 73 degrees.
Howard is coming off a 27-13 win at Hampton on Saturday. Ja’Shawn Scroggins guided the Bison by completing 23 of 34 passes for 267 yards and a touchdown while carrying 16 times for 64 yards and another score. Eden James added 13 rushes for 44 yards, two receptions for 24 yards and a touchdown. Travis Kerney ran five times for 10 yards, caught two passes for 12 yards and scored. The Hampton win ended a three-game losing streak.
Scroggins is the player to watch for Howard. In his previous recent performances, he completed 5 of 14 passes for 38 yards and ran seven times for 18 yards in a loss to Rutgers. He also threw for 43 yards at Indiana. Against Hampton, he produced 267 passing yards, 64 rushing yards and a touchdown. Howard’s other results this season include a 28-21 loss to Richmond, a 31-24 win at Alabama A&M, a 55-0 loss at Indiana and a 58-7 loss at Rutgers.
Penn returns home after a 14-10 loss at Dartmouth on Saturday. Miles Teodecki is the player to watch for the Quakers. Against Dartmouth, he completed 27 of 39 passes for 214 yards and ran 11 times for 54 yards. Donte West ran 14 times for 44 yards and caught three passes for 34 yards. Sean Williams Jr. ran four times for 21 yards and scored a touchdown. Penn has lost two straight games.
Teodecki also completed 18 of 37 passes for 133 yards against Lehigh. In Penn’s 20-7 win at Bucknell, he completed 18 of 34 passes for 197 yards, ran 13 times for 87 yards, threw two touchdown passes and scored on a rushing touchdown. Penn’s other result this season was a 20-7 home loss to Lehigh.
Howard’s upcoming schedule includes a home game against Morehouse College, road games at Morgan State, North Carolina Central and Norfolk State, and home games against South Carolina State and Delaware State. Penn’s upcoming schedule includes home games against Columbia, Yale and Harvard, and road games at Brown, Cornell and Princeton.
Interstat’s game simulator is projecting a final score of Penn 36, Howard 25. Howard has been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of +14. The over/under for this game is 42.5.