Penn State football recruiting must convince a final handful of prospects to stick on national signing day. Who could they be?

The Penn State Nittany Lions face the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, led by quarterback Athan Kaliakmanis, on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025 at SHI Stadium in Piscataway, N.J.

Penn State football won its final three regular-season games to qualify for a bowl game. Here's where they may go and play.

With the regular season now officially over, this gives us the perfect time to take a look at the happenings on the coaching search front. To his credit, Pat Kraft has kept a lid on this thing from the jump,

Penn State has played inspired football the last two weeks to put itself in position to qualify for a bowl game. But if Terry Smith’s Nittany Lions don’t beat Rutgers today in New Jersey, the program will spend the early part of winter in the freezing cold of State College.

The Nittany Lions survived a high-scoring game on the road against the Scarlet Knights, and they'll have one more game to play this season in a bowl.