STATE COLLEGE – If any Penn State football player knew about Michigan’s upset win over Ohio State before or during their regular season finale against Maryland, they wouldn’t say Saturday night. Except for safety Jaylen Reed. He learned about the result before the opening kickoff. “When I go onto the field, I always listen to music,” Reed said. “I just happened to check the score and I saw they (the Wolverines) kicked the (go-ahead) field goal. So I knew we had to handle our business to get to where we wanted to go.” Michigan opened the door for the fourth-ranked Nittany Lions to make the Big Ten championship game next week in Indianapolis. They broke it down by routing the Terrapins 44-7 Saturday at Beaver Stadium. Penn State (8-1, 11-1) completed its first 11-win regular season since 2008 and sealed a berth in the title game against No. 1 Oregon Saturday night at Lucas Oil Stadium. It will be the Lions’ first appearance since they beat Wisconsin 38-31 in 2016. “We’re obviously excited,” quarterback Drew Allar said. “We get an opportunity to go to Indianapolis and play for the Big Ten championship. That’s why we all come to Penn State, to play in games like this. “It’s going to be a huge opportunity for us. We’re going to be going against a very talented team. Theyv’e had a great year as well.” Allar completed 17-of-26 passes for 171 yards and one TD and ran for a score and Tyler Warren made six catches for 68 yards and a TD, completed a pass for 9 yards and ran three times for 32 yards, including a 29-yard burst during which he hurdled a defensive back. Warren broke the Big Ten record for catches in a season and the Penn State record for TD catches in his career when he had a 7-yard reception in the second quarter for his 17th. Warren said he didn’t find out about Michigan’s 13-10 victory until after the game. “We have a way of carrying ourselves in the locker room (before the game),” he said. “Guys aren’t on phones or anything like that. We knew we had a job to focus on. I don’t think people were really worried about that at that moment. “After the game it (a graphic) was the first thing I saw on the video board.” Gov. Mifflin product Nick Singleton accounted for 170 all-purpose yards for Penn State, carrying 13 times for 87 yards and two touchdowns, catching three passes for 17 yards and returning a kickoff 66 yards. He lost a fumble for the first time this season on the first play of the game, which led to MJ Morris’ 25-yard touchdown pass to Kaden Prather on the next play. He spent the rest of the game making up for that mistake. “I hate fumbling,” Singleton said. ‘I fumbled and they ended up scoring. I had to get myself back up. My teammates were there to help me up. After that, I just put the team on my back and ran. “After that, I forgot about it. You have to have a short-term memory. You move on. You saw what we did.” Maryland (1-8, 4-8) did very little the rest of the game after its only score. The Lions limited the Terrapins to 194 total yards, sacked Morris and Champ Long six times, stopped them twice on fourth down and intercepted two passes, one apiece by Audavion Collins and Tony Rojas. Abdul Carter had two of the Lions’ sacks, giving him 10 this season. “We’re still getting better,” Carter said. “Each week we just keep getting better and better. We’re going to continue doing that and we’re going to finish strong.” Beau Pribula scored on a 1-yard run in the second quarter for Penn State, which locked up a berth in the College Football Playoff. The Lions could get a first-round bye in the CFP as the Big Ten champ with a win over Oregon. The Lions put an exclamation point on their fourth straight victory over Maryland when Pribula threw a 15-yard TD pass to freshman Tyseer Denmark as time expired. Penn State coach James Franklin and Maryland coach Mike Locksley exchanged words at midfield after the game. A few minutes later, Franklin was visibly emotional during the singing of the alma mater. “Senior Day is emotional for me,” Franklin said. “You’re with these guys for four, five or six years through good and bad. It’s not always puppies and rainbows. To think of some of the journeys I’ve been on with some of these guys, it’s a lot. “I’m proud of them. On top of it, we’re going to Indianapolis to play in the Big Ten championship game. Pretty cool.”