Matt Rhule and Terry Smith have more in common than their Penn State playing days.

Rhule’s 7-3 Nebraska Cornhuskers face 4-6 Penn State on Saturday night at Beaver Stadium.

Rhule, a walk-on, played at Penn State in the mid-1990s.

Smith was a dangerous wideout who served as a captain on Penn State’s 1991 team that finished 11-2 and drubbed Tennessee 42-17 in the Fiesta Bowl.

Rhule, Temple’s head coach from 2013 through 2016, also hired Smith to be the Owls’ wideout coach in 2013.

Smith spent one season in Philadelphia before joining James Franklin’s Penn State program in 2014 to coach the team’s cornerbacks.

Smith, now Penn State’s interim head coach, was asked about spending a year with Rhule at Temple.

“That was kind of an unplanned hiring, I guess,” Smith said Monday.

“Back th

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