Mike Poorman

Matt Campbell is doing Penn State football his way. Which is quite different than how his predecessor did it. Now, in some ways, what was old is new again. Not a surprise for many reasons, given that Cambell grew up as a fan of PSU football and has a bachelor’s degree in history. The latest…

As Matt Campbell pieced together the 2026 Penn State football staff and roster, it was a classic case of yours, mine and ours. The Nittany Lions were the Brady Bunch of college football, sans Alice. They welcomed 62 newcomers to Happy Valley — 40 transfers and 22 freshmen. Only UCLA, which cleaned house (speaking of…

Two things can be true: Matt Campbell is good for Penn State. Saturday was proof positive of that — on, going onto and off the field. Also, though: Penn State is good for Matt Campbell. He said as much after his team’s 45-0 thrashing of Marshall on Saturday, his first game as the Nittany Lions’ head…

Penn State’s Rocco Becht made his 40th start as a college quarterback on Saturday in Beaver Stadium. No one playing in the FBS season has more — and that would include any NFL rookies who got cut and might be trying to come back to play for LSU. In his 39 prior games as a starter…

Over the course of his 2024 and ’25 seasons at Iowa State, offensive coordinator Taylor Mouser called 1,813 plays. Give or take. The Cyclones’ offense ran that many. But head coach Matt Campbell, himself a former O-coordinator, quarterbacks coach Jake Waters and veteran quarterback Rocco Becht all had a voice — and, in Becht’s case,…

Watch Tony Rojas. He’ll be back at linebacker for Penn State on Saturday against Marshall, the culmination of a journey that seemingly took him everywhere, but ultimately brought him back to Beaver Stadium. WATCH TONY ROJAS… • Return to the field where he last played in a college football game, 339 days ago, when Oregon…

Kirk Herbstreit of ESPN has high hopes for Matt Campbell and his Nittany Lions in the new head coach’s first season in Happy Valley. Higher, perhaps, than even the top row of the new west side stands in Beaver Stadium. In fact, almost no one in all of college football is more in on Campbell…

Matt Campbell and the Nittany Lions open their 2026 season Saturday afternoon in Beaver Stadium against Marshall. It’s Campbell’s first game as Penn State’s head coach, and even though he’s just 46 years old, it will be his 15th season opener as a big boss in college football. So, Campbell has been in this spot…

As Christian Smith sat in the Penn State football team meeting room in the Lasch Building, surrounded by a small handful of local media types on Tuesday — just 11 days before the Nittany Lions’ season-opener against Marshall — the irony was not lost on Penn State’s new edge rusher coach.  Ultimately, James Franklin’s loss was…

It was 15 seasons ago when D’Anton Lynn last stood on the Beaver Stadium turf for a fall football game as a Penn State cornerback. Lynn returns in 13 days as the Nittany Lions’ defensive coordinator, when Penn State hosts Marshall in the 2026 season opener. Time flies. In his stellar Penn State career from…