Pineapples and KTCS are knotted at 2-2-4, but the Pineapples enter as the favorites on Pick'em with a 67% chance to win, and they have the hot hand after their Halloween Bowl blowout of 70-42. The Pineapples' Kayson Link has been torching defenses with 17 TD passes, and Maddox Marsaglia (five TDs) and Braxton Iliff-Murphy (five TDs, including a wide-open score) are his big-play targets. KTCS fires back with Charlie Waddell's seven TD passes and a ball-hawking Xavier Davenport, who has six interceptions and a pick-six. The matchup that could decide it is Link versus KTCS's defense, and whether the Pineapples' receivers can get open again while KTCS counters with Giovani Pelaez, a standout two-way threat. With a win on the line for playoff picture...

AI predictionPDN 21 – 14 KTC

Player to watchMaddox MarsagliaWith five TDs, three TD passes, and several crazy mossing plays, he is the Pineapples' biggest big-play threat in this matchup.