Now, with interim head coach Terry Smith and redshirt freshman quarterback Ethan Grunkemeyer, the Nittany Lions will try and salvage the rest of the 2025 season and find out who is ready to be a major piece of the 2026 team. Let’s take a look at how this year will finish and what comes next.

There are already some changes to the Penn State coaching hot board with a couple of new additions for our radar and removal of one top candidate.

There is a national championship contender in the Big Ten not named Ohio State or Oregon. It’s just not the team everyone assumed it would be.

In first Indiana season of girls high school flag football, Penn's team comes out No.1 with the sport's inaugural state championship.

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Absolutely not. Ohio State and Indiana are the two most disciplined programs in the country right now. They will not let UCLA sneak up on them like the Bruins did Penn State and Michigan State. They will handle business and win comfortably — even if it’s a little less comfortably than we thought they might a few weeks ago.

Penn State was ranked No. 2 in the preseason, but after three losses, head coach James Franklin was shown the door.

Joel Klatt joins Colin Cowherd to discuss Penn State’s search for a new head coach, whether or not USC can be trusted as a contender, and Indiana establishing themselves as title contenders after beating Oregon.