Jake Trotter May 6, 2026, 06:51 AM ET Close Jake Trotter is a senior writer at ESPN. Trotter covers college football. He also writes about other college sports, including men's and women's basketball. Trotter resides in the Cleveland area with his wife and three kids and is a fan of his hometown Oklahoma City Thunder. He covered the Cleveland Browns and NFL for ESPN for five years, moving back to college football in 2024. Previously, Trotter worked for the Middletown (Ohio) Journal, Austin American-Statesman and Oklahoman newspapers before joining ESPN in 2011. He's a 2004 graduate of Washington and Lee University. You can reach out to Trotter at jake.trotter@espn.com and follow him on X at @Jake_Trotter. STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Matt Campbell sits back on a sofa inside the head coach's office that overlooks Penn State 's practice fields. Four months into the job, the room still looks like he arrived that morning. A half-dozen white Nittany Lions helmets sit stacked on a multitiered shelf behind him.…