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When will Penn State take the stage at the 2025 Big Ten football media days?

Greg Pickelby:Greg Pickel•04/09/25•

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For the first time, the Big Ten Conference is taking its annual football media days event to the West Coast. Penn State and its league peers will travel to the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in July for three days of interviews, video shoots with the league’s television partners, and more. The conference previously announced that the event would both be held in Las Vegas and also take place July 22-24. Now, it’s also revealed when each school will take center stage.

Head coach James Franklin and a few of his players are part of the second day’s featured group. Penn State will be behind the microphones on hand July 23, along with coaches and players from Minnesota, Northwestern, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin. Defending national champion Ohio State headlines the group of six schools that will kick things off on July 22. The final day features Michigan and USC, among others.

Player representatives for all 18 league schools will be announced later this year. In the Franklin era, Penn State has typically picked three senior to go to media days, which have been held in both Chicago and Indianapolis over the last decade. With so many key contributors back, the Lions will have a high-quality group to pick from. It includes but is hardly limited to Drew Allar, Nick Singleton, Kaytron Allen, Vega Ioane, Nick Dawkins, Dani Dennis-Sutton, Dominic DeLuca, Riley Thompson, and Zakee Wheatley.

Big Ten Media Days serve as the unofficial kickoff to every new season. Once they are complete, teams typically start preseason camp over the course of the next seven days.

Penn State has much to accomplish before Big Ten Media Days

It goes without saying that the annual conference gathering is probably the last thing on the mind of the Lions right now. Penn State is at the halfway mark of spring practice. It closes drills out with the Blue-White game at 2 p.m. ET on April 26. Before that, it will deal with the spring transfer portal window, which runs April 15-25. Recruits continue to come to campus this month, as well. Before we know it, spring and summer official visits will be here, too.

First, though, the team must finish spring practice strong. It’s been so far, so good, for Penn State, and it hopes that continues throughout the rest of April.

“The practices have been very competitive,” Franklin said Tuesday night. “We’re in year two on offense and, what, three months on defense, and it’s been really competitive out here. So I think that’s that’s a real positive for us to lay a really good foundation that we’ll be able to do some stuff over the summer, and then training camp, and then obviously get into the season, and we’re going to have to be ready to roll for week one. So I’m pleased with where we’re at.”

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