The Nittany Lions open the 2025 season with four consecutive home games, including the first visit from Oregon since 1964.

The Penn State Nittany Lions saw their season end in the Orange Bowl against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Still, Penn State making a run to the College Football Playoff Semifinals is a big deal for James Franklin and his program.

James Franklin, Pat Narduzzi, Mike Locksley and other coaches had different rankings for Penn State in the USA Today Coaches Poll.

Penn State received 1,203 points in the final AP Top 25 poll, just eight behind Texas for fourth. Ohio State was No. 1, followed by Notre Dame and Oregon. Penn State has finished in the AP top 10 five times in James Franklin's 11 seasons as head coach. Franklin's teams have seven top-20 finishes since 2016.

The Lions247 team has its finger on the pulse of Penn State transfer portal news, recruiting, coaching staff moves and more after James Franklin's squad was eliminated in the semifinals of the College

For years, Penn State had a pair of popular cheers, “The Nittany Lion” and "Short Yell State.” In the mid-1970s, according to Penn State historian Lou Prato, the Nittany Lions’ cheerleaders were awed when making road trips with the team to Ohio State and USC, both of which used call-and-response cheers among fans to liven the in-stadium atmosphere.

Penn State football has a few culprits for Thursday's heartbreaking Orange Bowl loss to a gritty Notre Dame team

Defensive end Dani Dennis-Sutton (6-5, 266) was a force opposite Abdul Carter and could wind up on multiple preseason All-America teams. Dennis-Sutton had eight sacks, 13 tackles for loss, nine quarterback hurries, an interception and two fumble recoveries last year.

Penn State's historic 2024-25 season comes to an official close with the final US LBM Coaches Poll. See how James Franklin voted.

The College Football Playoff wrapped up and teams are preparing for the 2025 season. With plenty of changes inbound as we adjust to the new playoff system and an expanding NIL influence, let's look at how this could impact future seeding.

Ohio State's run to its first national championship in a decade enabled the Buckeyes to dominate the Associated Press' all-College Football Playoff team.