The Penn State Nittany Lions might finally have a real leader in their sights, and it is a name college football fans have heard for years: Iowa State Cyclones head coach Matt Campbell.

According to a report from On3, Penn State has shifted the focus of its coaching search to Matt Campbell, with the two sides communicating over the last 24 hours.

That is a big swing for athletic director Pat Kraft after the program struck out on BYU’s Kalani Sitake and Alabama’s Kalen DeBoer, both of whom chose to stay put and signed extensions. Penn State fired former head coach James Franklin in October and has faced plenty of national backlash as the carousel kept moving without them.

So why zero in on Campbell now? The track record is hard to ignore. Since 2016, Matt Campbell has turned the Io

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