Just when things were trending upward for Matt Rhule and the Nebraska Cornhuskers, rumors began to swirl across the NCAA. After James Franklin was relieved of his duties as head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions, several household names in college football emerged as potential candidates.

Rhule—currently guiding the 5-1 Cornhuskers through the Big Ten—is reportedly a frontrunner for the vacant job in State College. However, he made sure to kill the buzz with a concise statement. Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola already draws plenty of attention to the program in Lincoln. The team will be better off if its head coach isn’t on the front cover, too.

“I’m not going to talk a lot about job openings when they come,” Rhule commented, via The Athletic‘s Mitch Sherman. “I’m not going to talk

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