NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… NEW YORK – Penn State’s 2025 football season was disappointing, tumultuous, strange and so much more. The Nittany Lions began the season ranked second in the top 25, dropped six straight games and then won their final four. They saw their head coach, James Franklin, fired the day after a second straight loss to a prohibitive underdog and nine months after he led them to the College Football …
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NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… EAST LANSING, Mich. – They celebrated Saturday night like they won a championship that they expected to win when all of this began. They carried their coach on their shoulders when it was over. They raised a clunky trophy and posed for photos with it. They banged lockers in the bowels of Spartan Stadium. All that after Penn State’s 28-10 victory over hapless Michigan State for the Land Grant …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Terry Smith has been reliable, direct and effective since he joined the Penn State football staff as James Franklin’s first assistant coach in 2014. That hasn’t changed since he became the interim head coach last month when director of athletics Pat Kraft fired Franklin. “He’s a straight-up guy,” linebacker Amare Campbell said. “He calls everybody out. It doesn’t matter who you are, what your …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Interim head football coach Terry Smith described Ethan Grunkemeyer as Penn State’s quarterback of the future this week. That might be true, but Grunkemeyer could just as easily wind up at another school after the season ends. It all depends on what the next Nittany Lions coach thinks of him or if he brings in a hand-picked quarterback. To describe the emotions and the tension inside the Lasch …