Less than a week after capping off their 2025 season with a third consecutive win, the Iowa State football program now has a new leader. After longtime head coach Matt Campbell left Ames to take over at Penn State, the Cyclones have hired Washington State head coach Jimmy Rogers as his replacement. ESPN's Pete Thamel broke the news via X, formerly Twitter. Expand Tweet

“Sources: Jimmy Rogers is set to become the next coach at Iowa State,” Thamel broke on Friday evening. “He’s the first-year head coach at Washington State and won a national title at South Dakota State in 2023 as the head coach there.”

Rogers is finishing up his first year at the helm of the Washington State Cougars. After years of conference-realignment-related turmoil, the Cougars will settle into a reconfigured Pa

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