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.

Here's why IU football coach Curt Cignetti isn't leaving Indiana for Penn State: The Hoosiers have become a football school. Penn State? Same ol' mess

There are already some changes to the Penn State coaching hot board with a couple of new additions for our radar and removal of one top candidate.