Penn State has been unable to find a head coach for 2026, but they have made a lot of college football coaches rich this fall.

No matter who winds up as Penn State’s next coach, Kraft’s search has been, to put it politely, clumsy. He either overplayed his hand or he wasn’t fully prepared to make the most important hire in his career. Fifty-one days and Nittany Nation is still waiting.

With Penn State seeing a number of potential coaching candidates come off the list in the last few days, it's time to hit reset on the hot board.

At Penn State, Franklin signed 12 straight top-25 classes, making that seem as mundane as his 10-win seasons (even though Joe Paterno had recruited as low as No. 39 and No. 48 in the 2000s). In this cycle, Richmond four-star WR Davion Brown was among the dozen recruits who decommitted from Penn State after Franklin’s firing.

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish looks ready to siphon one high-profile Penn State decommit. James Franklin's firing sent ripple effects with the Nittany Lions' 2026 and 2027 recruiting classes -- including Kemon Spell reopening his recruitment. Now one ...

Penn State's coaching search reached Day 53 on Wednesday, which coincides with the start of college football's early signing period, and the program has no full-time head coach. Now that Lane Kiffin is off to LSU, Penn State wears the sport's spotlight, and it's not flattering.

Powered by Big Cookie, No. 11 BYU is the final weekend’s most important team, capable of swiping an auto-bid and thus blocking either Bama, No. 10 Notre Dame or No. 12 Miami — if the Cougars can avenge themselves against No. 4 Texas Tech (-12.5) in Arlington.

During the early period, Penn State had two signees in Malvern Prep's Jackson Ford and Nazareth's Peyton Falzone, while 11 previous pledges flipped to sign with James Franklin at Virginia Tech.

On national signing day, a large chunk of Penn State's original 2026 recruiting class officially chose to follow James Franklin to Blacksburg.