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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.
Pages in category "Penn State Nittany Lions football coaches" The following 129 pages are in this category, out of 129 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
[172] [173] Based on the criteria used by the NCAA, Paterno no longer held the record for most victories by an NCAA Division I football coach. Former Florida State coach Bobby Bowden held the NCAA major college record for wins at 377, while for NCAA Division I schools, Grambling State University coach Eddie Robinson's 408 victories stood as the ...
In between, O'Brien famously helped lead Penn State from the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky scandal and NCAA sanctions, was head coach of the Houston Texan and worked under Nick Saban at Alabama.
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.
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 ...
The head coach at Ben Davis was Dick Dullaghan, whom Allen had come to know through the former's football camps in Lakeland, Florida. [1] Dullaghan retired after the 2003 season and Allen succeeded him as head coach. [5] Allen coached Ben Davis from 2004 to 2006. In those three seasons, his teams were 25–12 overall.
Thomas Mark Bradley (born July 12, 1956) is an American football coach and former collegiate player. He was an assistant coach at Penn State from 1979 to 2011 and served as the interim head coach following Joe Paterno's dismissal due to the Penn State child sex abuse scandal.