In his 11th season as head coach, James Franklin finally got over the hump and led Penn State to the 2024-2025 College Football Playoffs . Returning one of the most experienced teams in the country, the Nittany Lions enter the new season as title contenders and the favorite to win the Big 10. With everything seemingly aligning for them, here are our 2025 Penn State football bold predictions.

Although the Nittany Lions won a program record 13 games in 2024, they still fell two games short of their preseason goals. Their eight-point loss to Oregon in the Big 10 Championship Game prevented Franklin's first conference title, and they came up just shy in the playoffs, losing to Notre Dame in the quarterfinals.

The two postseason losses pushed Penn State to No. 4 in the final College Footb

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