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What happened to Penn State?
Sports Illustrated, 10/16/2025
Eva Geitheim reports:
So what happened to the No. 2 preseason team and then-College Football Playoff favorite? A team that thought they'd be hoisting a trophy, not watching their coach say his goodbyes to a program he's manned for over a decade. While athletic director Pat Kraft ensured that Franklin and the team had the coaches and players to contend, the team proved unable to handle the pressure and expectations.
Penn State blew out their first three opponents of the season, but they began showing signs of hesitancy and a lack of confidence that would come back to bite them.
"The culture had gotten really tight," one athletic department source said to ESPN. "People around here were like, 'We're going to get f—ing crushed by Oregon.'"
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