As a player, Rick Santos was one of the best quarterbacks in FCS history. Now, after spending most of his playing and coaching career at New Hampshire, he takes over at Penn.

At New Hampshire, Santos amassed a 37-24 record with New Hampshire including three FCS Playoff appearances in five seasons with the program.

Penn State football will head to New York City to play in the Pinstripe Bowl in Yankee Stadium against Clemson.

Terry Smith wasn’t hesitant about staying on the Penn State football coaching staff, especially after agreeing to a lucrative four-year contract and learning he’d be working for Matt Campbell. They’ve known each other since 2011 when Campbell was the 32-year-old head coach at Toledo and Smith was the head coach at Gateway High School in Pittsburgh.

Penn State’s search is a story of miscommunication, misjudgments and misinformation that stoked panic around a key college football brand.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/college/pennstate as For Penn State Football's Strength Program, the End of an Era.

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Due to the dismissal of James Franklin as the head football coach at Penn State, almost all of the 2026 recruits have deserted Penn State and gone to other schools. Most notably, many of them will join Franklin,