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UNIVERSITY PARK — The chants started in Beaver Stadium as soon as Kaytron Allen broke the all-time Penn State rushing record early in the fourth quarter. TERR-Y, TERR-Y, TERR-Y. Then Allen scored his second touchdown of the night, a 13-yard scamper, to finish up Penn State’s eventual 37-10 win over...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Kaytron Allen ran for 160 yards and two touchdowns, and Penn State’s defense played its best game of the season to keep the Nittany Lions’ bowl hopes alive with a 37-10 win over Nebraska on Saturday night. Allen, who racked up 181 yards rushing in last week’s...

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Stefan Vaaks scored 15 points, Jason Edwards scored 14 points and Providence took control in the second half to beat Penn State, 77-65, on Saturday in the Basketball Hall of Fame Showcase. Jaylin Sellers added 13 points, and Oswin Ehrunmwunse scored 11 points for Providence (4-2). In...

Matt Rhule and Terry Smith have more in common than their Penn State playing days. Rhule’s 7-3 Nebraska Cornhuskers face 4-6 Penn State on Saturday night at Beaver Stadium. Rhule, a walk-on, played at Penn State in the mid-1990s. Smith was a dangerous wideout who served as a captain on...

Penn State veteran quarterback Drew Allar is feeling better these days. Much better than he did when he suffered a broken left ankle against Northwestern last month. The injury, which occurred late in the Nittany Lions’ 22-21 loss to the Wildcats on Oct. 11 at Beaver Stadium, ended Allar’s collegiate...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Freshman Kayden Mingo scored a career-high 24 points, and Penn State held off Harvard for an 84-80 victory on Wednesday night. Harvard’s Chandler Pigge made three free throws to tie it 70-all with 4 minutes, 56 seconds remaining. Penn State’s Melih Tunca scored the next four points,...

Penn State head coach Terry Smith turned to look at quarterbacks coach Danny O’Brien as the seconds ticked toward their team’s 28-10 win over Michigan State on Saturday evening. O’Brien was starting to get sentimental. “I’m looking at him sideways like, we don’t normally have these conversations,” Smith said following...

For the first time in 2025, Penn State is represented in the Big Ten’s weekly awards. Senior running back Kaytron Allen won the conference’s Offensive Player of the Week nomination, while senior defensive end Dani Dennis-Sutton earned Defensive Player of the Week honors. The Nittany Lions defeated Michigan State, 28-10,...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Terry Smith continually referenced a “storm” his Penn State team was in the middle of over the past two months. The Nittany Lions had lost six straight games, seen coach James Franklin fired and lost starting quarterback Drew Allar to injury. Five of those six losses came...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Penn State enjoyed Saturday’s win over Michigan State as you might expect a team to after breaking a six-game losing streak. Interim coach Terry Smith got a Gatorade bath and was carried off the sideline. The locker room was loud, and the smiles were everywhere in...

BLACKSBURG, Va. — James Franklin was hired as Virginia Tech’s coach on Monday, a little more than a month after he was fired during his 12th season at Penn State. The Hokies became the first Power 4 football program to fill a coaching vacancy this season. Franklin was set to...

Penn State Athletics Director Pat Kraft is still going through the process of hiring the Nittany Lions next head football coach. Some names have come off the board as coaches have agreed to extensions with their current school. However, it seems as though former Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald may be...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Terry Smith took off his headset, shuffled his way to the edge of the sideline and looked on as quarterback Ethan Grunkemeyer took a knee at Michigan State, stamping Penn State’s first Big Ten win this season and first win of any kind in 63 days....

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Ethan Grunkemeyer threw two touchdown passes to Devonte Ross, Kaytron Allen ran for 181 yards and two touchdowns and Penn State defeated Michigan State, 28-10, on Saturday to snap a six-game losing streak. Grunkemeyer completed 8 of 13 passes for 127 yards for the Nittany Lions...

PHILADELPHIA — Freshman Melih Tunca scored a career-best 20 points on 8-of-9 shooting, reserve Freddie Dilione V added 16 and Penn State beat La Salle, 83-69, on Saturday. Kayden Mingo scored 14 points, and reserve Ivan Juric had 11 for the Nittany Lions (4-0), whose bench scored 40 points. The...

Former Penn State football coach James Franklin may be closing in on his next job. ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported on “College GameDay” on Saturday morning there is interest between Franklin and Virginia Tech regarding its open coaching position. “Former Penn State coach James Franklin and Virginia Tech are engaged in...

Maybe both teams are done with losing. Or maybe it’s something bigger as Penn State finishes preparations for its Big Ten meeting with Michigan State on Saturday afternoon in East Lansing. Perhaps emotions are running high with the Land Grant Trophy at stake. Let’s play it safe and say it’s...

STATE COLLEGE — Interim head coach Terry Smith has continually talked about a “storm” Penn State must continue to push through to see the other side of a six-game losing streak. That matches what junior safety King Mack said Wednesday night. Smith — even in his days as the cornerbacks...

Over the past two weeks, Penn State not only had to face the best that the Big Ten had to offer, but also the best the nation had to offer. And despite having the lead against the No. 2 team in the nation with a little under two minutes to...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Freddie Dilione V scored 19 points off the bench, freshman Kayden Mingo added 16 and Penn State held off Navy, 80-71, on Tuesday night. Penn State has started 3-0 for the fourth straight season and fifth time in the last seven years. Navy got within 63-60 with...

Navigating through a three-game stretch against Iowa (road), No. 1 Ohio State (road) and No. 2 Indiana (home) would be difficult for an established quarterback. Attempting to do it in your first three career starts? Three words sum up that task: baptism by fire. Penn State redshirt freshman quarterback Ethan...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State has been searching all season for downfield passing, well before things went off the rails with James Franklin’s firing and Drew Allar’s season-ending injury. Despite another gut-wrenching loss as the Nittany Lions nearly upset No. 2 Indiana, quarterback Ethan Grunkemeyer led some major leaps forward...

WEST HAVEN, Conn. — Dominick Stewart scored 18 points and made six 3-pointers, Kayden Mingo had 16 points, six rebounds and six assists and Penn State went on the road to beat New Haven, 87-43, on Saturday. Penn State trailed 10-9 after the opening eight minutes before scoring the next...

Terry Smith wants to give the Penn State football program something to feel good about, but he knows he’s running out of chances. The team’s interim coach will lead the Nittany Lions (3-5, 0-5 Big Ten) as they try to snap a five-game losing streak against No. 2 Indiana (9-0,...