Penn State football entered the 2025 college football season with some unprecedented and lofty expectations, including being looked at as a national championship contender.

The preseason hype all checked out on paper: the Nittany Lions were fresh off a College Football Playoff semifinal finish against Notre Dame , kept several key members of their offense — including quarterback Drew Allar and running backs Kaytron Allen and Nicholas Singleton — from entering the NFL draft, and were a top-three preseason-ranked team in the US LBM Coaches Poll.

That anticipation and hype have not been closely met, as the Nittany Lions are no longer ranked, sit at the bottom of the Big Ten standings, have lost Allar to a season-ending injury and have an interim coach in Terry Smith afte

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