Former Alabama head coach and current "College GameDay" analyst Nick Saban is one of the people that Fox Sports college football analyst Joel Klatt thinks Penn State should at least call, but former Alabama and NFL running back Mark Ingram doesn't see Saban coming out of retirement.

A former Penn State football staffer provided some additional insight this week into the school's decision to fire head coach James Franklin.

Now, with interim head coach Terry Smith and redshirt freshman quarterback Ethan Grunkemeyer, the Nittany Lions will try and salvage the rest of the 2025 season and find out who is ready to be a major piece of the 2026 team. Let’s take a look at how this year will finish and what comes next.

Penn State was ranked No. 2 in the preseason, but after three losses, head coach James Franklin was shown the door.

Troy Huhn, a 6-foot-4 quarterback from Mission Hills, has decommitted from Penn State after the firing of Head Coach James Franklin, and has a selection of other highly renowned programs to choose from,

Nicole Auerbach and Joshua Perry evaluate the top candidates for Penn State's head coaching job after it moved on from James Franklin before projecting what a potential hiring timeline could look like.