The Obligatory PSU Podcast

FALL '26 Episode 14: Over the Edge

Recorded roughly 12 hours after the Nittany Lions completed an embarrassing pillar-to-post implosion at Northwestern, the guys give their raw reactions to this latest ind

FALL '26 Episode 13: On the Brink

Our first podcast description of the season ended with this question: "Is Penn State football's new leadership playing the 'Moneyball' long game while restoring the spiri

FALL '26 Episode 12: Hail, Alma Mater

It's Homecoming Week in Happy Valley! What better time of year for new head coach Matt Campbell, his staff, and his 3-0 team to begin their Big Ten journey than with the

FALL '26 Episode 11: Bull Session

If Week One offered a pleasant distraction from the harsh realities of college football, Penn State's second game and first road contest of the season - a bus trip to the

FALL '26 Episode 10: Philadelphia Freedom

For the moment at least, the bad memories were banished - the lengthy, lingering shadows of a shattered season ripe with promise, a messy divorce rife with mutual recrimi

FALL '26 Episode 9: Marshall the Troops

FINALLY, FOOTBALL! And just in time, the gang is back to preview the highly unusual occasion of a new Penn State head football coach making his debut (ironically, the mos

FALL '26 Episode 8: Penn State Roster Review (Defense)

Chris welcomes back his old LION 90.7fm radio partner Mike Levine for a second week to complete their analysis of 2026 Nittany Lions roster. Led by former Penn State corn

FALL '26 Episode 7: Penn State Roster Review (Offense)

Per Obligatory tradition, Chris enlists the assistance of his fellow LION 90.7fm alum Mike Levine to analyze the 2026 Nittany Lions roster in two installments, beginning

FALL '26 Episode 6: The Last James Franklin Show

Time to clear the cache. Penn State doesn't change head football coaches very often, and yet here we are. So before Matt Campbell leads the Nittany Lions out of the tunne

FALL '26 Episode 5: The Zen of Matt Campbell

Fall camp opens this week. Summer graduation and Campus Move-In are right around the bend. Before you know it, Week Zero will be in the record books, and "Thundering Herd

FALL '26 Episode 4: Caught in the (Save College Sports) Act

If reactions to our second podcast episode this season are any indication, the members of our panel aren't the only fans falling out of love with college football in its

FALL '26 Episode 3: Generations of Greatness

How much has playing football for Penn State changed between the late 1900s and the digital age? This week, we consult our in-house experts: Two former football players,

FALL '26 Episode 2: Where's Your Head At?

With all the upheaval in Happy Valley and across the college football landscape, who's lost that loving feeling? You don't need to squint too hard to see the 2026 colleg

FALL '26 Episode 1: Everything is Awesome (or Awful?)

Aaaaaand... we're back. Roughly six months into the Matt Campbell era in Happy Valley, Penn State is sinking like a stone in the national recruiting rankings, repeatedl

FALL '25 Episode 23: Opting In

Penn State's 2025 football season officially came to a close with the Nittany Lions' 22-10 victory over Clemson in the Pinstripe Bowl. While both rosters were limited by

FALL '25 Episode 22: Look Back on Penn State's WILD 2025

As calendar year 2025 approaches its end, the guys pour some egg nog, gather around the yule log, and retell the long and winding tale of a crazy year in Penn State footb

FALL '25 Episode 21: Introducing Matt Campbell

Penn State football has a new head coach! It may have taken Pat Kraft a couple of months, cost us a recruiting class, and ended with a stranger-than-fiction leaked audio

FALL '25 Episode 20: Legally Recorded Audio

Mercifully overshadowed by the real news of the day (Matt Campbell to PSU), the largely innocuous leaked audio of athletic director Pat Kraft's behind-closed-doors meetin

FALL '25 Episode 19: We Have No Clue

Is it gonna be Kalani Sitake? Jeff Brohm? Some shadowy mystery candidate? And whoever it ends up being, will that guy actually have a roster left to coach by the time he

FALL '25 Episode 18-A: Noble x Tengwall

BONUS CONTENT: As hinted at during this week's show, we couldn't let the Terry Smith momentum pass - along with quite possibly our last (God willing) opportunity to specu