IOWA CITY, Iowa | Penn State brought a new motto to Kinnick Stadium but repeated some of the same mistakes in a 25-24 loss to the Hawkeyes. The loss also marked a first for the Penn State football program.

Grunkemeyer's first start as a Nittany Lion is officially in the books, and there was some good and bad to take from it.

The Penn State football program has faced plenty of adversity throughout the first two months of the 2025 college football season. The Nittany Lions were ranked No. 2 in the country in the preseason AP Top 25 poll,

After a 3-0 start and being as high as the No. 7 team in the AP Poll led to a horrendous three-game skid and a swift kick right out of the Top 25, the Penn State Nittany Lions had finally had enough and handed head coach James Franklin his walking papers.

Penn State’s nightmarish 2025 season got worse Saturday night in Iowa City when the team lost to the Iowa Hawkeyes, 25-24, in Kinnick Stadium. Let’s take a look at the good, the bad and the ugly from the Nittany Lions’ fourth straight loss.

SportsLine's model has revealed its Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Penn State Nittany Lions picks in the first game since PSU fired James Franklin

A physical Iowa-Penn State classic at Kinnick Stadium had mistakes and wild big plays. Chad Leistikow recaps what he saw unfold under the lights.

Former Penn State head coach James Franklin is not the only person responsible for this season’s stunning collapse, according to ESPN College GameDay host Rece Davis.