Penn State’s returning talent puts the Lions firmly in the Big Ten title game conversation for the second consecutive year.

STATE COLLEGE − James Franklin got the phone call at 5:40 a.m., two days after the national championship game. It was about Jim Knowles, Ohio State's multimillion-dollar defensive coordinator.

One of James Franklin’s first Penn State assistants is heading back to his old stomping grounds. Bob Shoop, the Nittany Lions' defensive coordinator in 2014 and 2015, has joined Vanderbilt as a ...

Penn State defensive coordinator Jim Knowles has bunkered into his State College office to begin what he called the "excruciating" process of introducing his philosophy. Penn State football coach ...

For the third time in four seasons, Penn State will have a new defensive coordinator at the helm. The Nittany Lions made former Ohio State coordinator Jim Knowles the highest-paid defensive ...

Tom Allen did a commendable job during his only season as Penn State’s defensive coordinator. The Nittany Lions finished No.

Since then, Penn State has replaced defensive coordinator Tom Allen by hiring Jim Knowles away from Ohio State, hired Stan ...

We heard from new Ohio State football defensive coordinator Matt Patricia for the first time at a press conference Friday in ...

Matt Patricia, a former assistant and head coach in the NFL, is working in college at Ohio State for the first time in more ...

Ohio State has its next defensive coordinator in Matt Patricia ... will take over after Jim Knowles left for the same job at Penn State. Advertisement Patricia will be tasked with keeping Ohio ...

Penn State's James Franklin explained, for the first time, of hiring away top defensive coordinator Jim Knowles from Ohio ...