Mike Poorman

Penn State coach Matt Campbell talks a lot about handling Adversity. A lot. It’s going to come, he says. It’s how you handle it. Adversity came to Beaver Stadium on Saturday night. And the guy on the other sidelines, Luke Fickell — his team playing poorly in a hostile environment and his seat already very warm…

How bad was it? Ahead 17-0 just 18 minutes into the game and lost bad. Ahead 20-10 until Wisconsin scored with just 211 seconds left in the game and lost bad. Ahead 20-17 until there were only 75 seconds left when Wisconsin scored on a 72-yard touchdown from quarterback Colton Joseph to tight end Jacob…

Under coach Matt Campbell, Penn State football practice is held early in the morning, with coaches and players arriving at Lasch Building before the sun comes up. For the next month or so, they’ll now be playing football after it sets. “I told our guys we’re on the night shift for a while,” Campbell said…

When it comes to former Iowa State quarterback and current San Francisco 49er star Brock Purdy, can Penn State’s Rocco Becht be QB Too? The answer is yes, at least at the college level. It’s a Purdy darn good idea. Purdy was the top QB at Iowa State from 2018-21, starting the final 46 games…

Penn State is off to a 3-0 start against an anonymous and fairly rag-tag trio of non-conference, non-combatant opponents. That’s typical for the Nittany Lions of the past decade or so. They began their seasons 3-0 in eight out of James Franklin’s final nine seasons. (The outlier? COVID 2020.) To begin his tenure in Happy…

The numbers that Penn State wide receiver Koby Howard has put up in the initial three games of the 2026 season are mind-boggling. So is the work that has gone into making them happen. THE STATS: In the 14th-ranked, 3-0 Nittany Lions’ trio of non-conference games, the second-year receiver has 13 touches for 364 yards,…

Matt Campbell has been in this situation before. Just not at Penn State. And not on the highly-favored team’s sidelines. In 2015 — Campbell’s fifth and final season as head coach at Toledo — Campbell took an unranked team. From the MAC (Mid-American Conference). On the road. Early in the season. To play a ranked opponent.…

The Penn State running game has been taking a pounding — on and off the field, and all over social media — two games into coach Matt Campbell’s regime. On Tuesday, Campbell said don’t point your finger at his offensive coordinator, Taylor Mouser. “Now you’ve got to make me say something nice about Mouse,” said Campbell,…

If Penn State vs. Temple is any sort of college football measuring stick of time, place and circumstance, let’s look at the trajectory of both schools since the Nittany Lions lost 27-10 to the Owls back on Sept. 5, 2015, at The Linc. Lots has happened since That Day. 4,025. That’s the days from that…

PHILADELPHIA — Penn State quarterback Rocco Becht is the glue. The eraser. The motivator. The fighter. The cheerleader. The playmaker. The spark. The Nittany Lions’ slow-starting 27-9 victory over Temple here at Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday proved all of that. And more. For two games, the Iowa State transfer has been the best player on…