Roughly four months lie between the end of April and the opening weekend of the 2026 college football season. Each new college football season presents an opportunity for programs to take a step forward from where they finished the prior season. In the Power Four ranks, nearly 20 programs are hoping to make that jump under the leadership of new head coaches. One of these programs springing into the 2026 college football season with new life is Penn State. The Nittany Lions are entering the first season of the Matt Campbell era, and there is much buzz around them as College Football Playoff contenders, given what Campbell brought from Iowa State and their rather friendly schedule. Former Georgia linebacker and college football media personality David Pollack is not singing the same tune about Penn State as some in the media landscape.…