The Penn State Nittany Lions team represents the Pennsylvania State University in college football. The Nittany Lions compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the Big Te
The 1903 Penn State football team
George W. Hoskins, Penn State's first head football coach, posted a 17-4-4 record between 1892 and 1895, the highest winning percentage in the program's history.
Coach Hugo Bezdek, who posted a 65–30–11 career record as head coach over 12 seasons between 1918 and 1929, along with the Nittany Lion mascot in the 1920s
James Franklin, head coach from 2014 to 2025
James Geoffrey Franklin is an American college football coach who is the head football coach at Virginia Tech. He previously served as the head football coach at Vanderbilt University from 2011 to 201
Penn State Nittany Lions football
…January 2014, Bill O'Brien left Penn State to accept the head coaching position with the NFL's Houston Texans. On January 11, 2014, Vanderbilt head coach James Franklin was hired as the 16th Penn State head football coach. He is the first African American head football coach at Penn State. In Franklin's first year, the…
Franklin in 2021 with Penn State