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This is a list of seasons completed by the Penn State Nittany Lions football team of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Since the team's creation in 1887, the Nittany Lions have participated in 1,368 officially sanctioned games, including 52 bowl games.
The Penn State Nittany Lions college football team represents Pennsylvania State University in the Big Ten Conference (Big 10), as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 16 head coaches, and 1 interim head coach, since it began play during the 1887 season.
The Nittany Lions are on the move, once again, in the polls after improving to 9-1 this season.
Penn State finished the 2019 season ranked #9 in both the AP Poll and Coaches Poll. Penn State announced at the end of the 2019 regular season that the board of trustees had confirmed unanimous approval of an extension of James Franklin contract after rumored interest from several other programs, including the USC Trojans [48] and Florida State ...
Penn State football is on the rise again in the national rankings. The Nittany Lions (8-1 overall, 5-1 Big Ten) moved up two spots to No. 5 in the most recent US LBM Coaches Poll released Sunday.
Penn State football finds itself in another preseason Top 10 as Associated Press voters slotted the Nittany Lions No. 8 Monday, one spot above where coaches voted them las t week.. Penn State is ...
College football ranking for Week 7 US LBM Coaches Poll. SEC teams bolded. First-place votes in parentheses. Texas (44) Ohio State (11) Oregon. Georgia. Penn State. Miami. Alabama. Ole Miss ...
On January 11, 2014, Vanderbilt head coach James Franklin was hired as the 16th Penn State head football coach. [44] He is the first African American head football coach at Penn State. [45] In Franklin's first year, the NCAA lifted Penn State's postseason ban and the Nittany Lions were bowl eligible.