Sitting at 3-3 with six games remaining, Penn State will have to find three wins the rest of the way to avoid missing out on a bowl game. Penn State has two games against ranked opponents ( Ohio State and Indiana) and road games against Michigan State and Rutgers .

Ryan Day considers Penn State, which visits Ohio State this week, to be one of the most talented teams in the nation despite its collapse.

At the start of the 2025 season, it was reasonable to wonder where Penn State would play after earning their first College Football Playoff bye. At worst, the most likely outcome appeared to be hosting a first-round game for the second season in a row.

Penn State, led by interim coach Terry Smith, is hoping to use the bye week to rally and end the season on a high note. At 3-4 on the season, the Nittany Lions must win three of their five remaining games to reach bowl eligibility — a far cry from the team's preseason No. 3 ranking.

Penn State lost its way, and its coach, this season, one that will go down as perhaps the most confounding in program history. The Nittany Lions went from preseason No. 2 to a head-coaching search in just six games. And James Franklin is the team's former coach promising to win a title elsewhere.

Here's what you need to know of Penn State football's White Out game tradition, as the Nittany Lions host No. 5 Oregon on Saturday in Happy Valley.

The city of Pasadena, California, and the Rose Bowl Operating Company have sued UCLA for allegedly trying to move its college football games from one of the sport’s most iconic stadiums to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood,

Joe Paterno was fired in the middle of his 46th season with the team, and Penn State's promising season would ultimately be remembered for what happened off the field. Still, interim head coach Tom Bradley had the final three games of the regular season ahead of him.