Penn State has found its next head coach, ending an agonizing 50-plus days of searching after athletic director Pat Kraft fired longtime leader James Franklin .

Iowa State’s Matt Campbell is set to become the 16th full-time head coach of the Nittany Lions, according to multiple reports. His name surfaced midway through this week, and rumors of meetings between him and the Penn State administration swirled quickly.

Campbell had been in place in Ames, Iowa, since 2016.

Penn State’s search filtered through multiple high-profile candidates before landing on Campbell, including Texas A&M’s Mike Elko and BYU’s Kalani Sitake , who both signed big-dollar extensions to stay at their schools.

Terms of Campbell’s deal with Penn State have not yet been released, but ESPN’s Pete Thamel repor

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