Early 2026 Penn State Season Preview | Cover 3 Summer School
Cover 3 College Football
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Bud Elliott sits down with Daniel Gallen of 247Sports to preview Penn State’s 2026 season.
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Penn State Team Site: https://247sports.com/college/penn-state/
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(00:00) Intro
(00:53) Changes With Matt Campbell
(3:07) Scheme For Offense
(4:11) Rocco Becht
(6:10) Running Backs
(8:09) Wide Receivers / Tight Ends
(11:31) Offensive Line
(14:29) Under-The-Radar Player On Offense
(16:22) Scheme For Defense
(17:46) Defensive Line
(20:34) Linebackers
(22:34) Defensive Backs
(23:17) Schedule Breakdown
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| 0:00.0 | Indiana can sort of cement itself as we are no longer this team that's going to be fighting for six wins anymore. |
| 0:07.3 | Malachi Tony, is he going to be ready? |
| 0:09.3 | Dante Moore, he showed improvement, better command. |
| 0:18.2 | What's going on, y'all? |
| 0:19.2 | I'm Bud Elliott. |
| 0:19.8 | This is Summer School on the Coversary Podcast Network, and we are back in session. That's Daniel Gowlin-Lymp. It's a big one today, Penn State, and we have a lot to talk about. Welcome in Daniel. What's going on, dude? I'm doing good, bud. Thanks for having me back. I look forward to this every spring, every summer. It's always fun. I feel like we could do like happened last year, but summer school is always kind of forward-looking, and you guys have done a great job over at Lines 247 chronicling that. So if you guys do want kind of the, you know, what happened last year, you can certainly go find it. We're going to move focus to this year coming off seven and six. James Franklin fired, you know, mid-season. I'm so glad we'm so glad we're having this because, like, this is not a rebuild. It's like a, it's a transplant with Matt Campbell coming over from Iowa State. Like, this is kind of like the, you know, state college cyclones in some ways with, with, you know, like some other probably more talented layers in. What have been the biggest changes as far as like how the program is run that you can tell? |
| 1:13.3 | Yeah, well, I'll say like the past couple years that I've come on. |
| 1:16.2 | Like I've known the roster and everything. |
| 1:17.9 | And today I got I got the position roster right in front of me. |
| 1:22.1 | So I don't miss anyone because you've got 40 transfers coming in. |
| 1:26.9 | They have 11 early enrollees of those 40 transfers, 24 followed Matt Campbell from Iowa State. |
| 1:35.0 | I think overall, the big thing that we've noticed this spring is that it's just kind of, |
| 1:39.8 | and I, you know, this probably happens every time you have a coaching change. |
| 1:43.3 | Obviously at Penn State, |
| 1:44.4 | there aren't too many of them. But it does feel like a really, really big reset. And it seems |
| 1:49.5 | like things have been recalibrated a little bit, you know, down to details. Like we've heard a lot about |
| 1:55.1 | nutrition this spring. We've heard a lot about the strength staff. We've heard a lot about |
| 1:59.6 | accountability. You know, a big |
| 2:01.6 | thing that some of the returning players from Penn State have talked about is they're on these |
| 2:07.3 | teams and over the course of the week, they get points, they lose points, you know, depending on |
| 2:13.1 | you have to do something well, if they miss a class, if they mess something up on the practice field, |
| 2:18.6 | and then at the end of the week, they tally up all the scores. You're at the bottom. You got to come in and, you know, clean the facility at 6 a.m. You know, something along those lines. So, you know, I think that there's really been a cultural reset, and it does seem like that the Penn State players who came back have really embraced it. |
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