The 2025 college football season creeps closer and closer, and Penn State continues to check off different boxes through the offseason. Earlier this week, the Nittany Lions wrapped winter workouts. Spring ball begins next week.
And now there’s details for one of the offseason’s most notable events.
Penn State announced Saturday that its annual Blue-White Game will begin at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 26.
Penn State previously announced the date of the Blue-White Game at halftime of its win over SMU in the College Football Playoff.
Earlier this winter, coach James Franklin hinted that the program could make “modifications” to the spring game. Across college football, teams are either canceling their spring games or turning them into events other than a scrimmage or glorified practice.
In the past, Penn State has altered the format of the game depending on player availability.
“We will still have the spring game because I know what it means to this community and the hotels and the bars and the restaurants and the tailgating and all of it,” Franklin said Feb. 11 “We’re working on that now. We may do some more events that we’re still working through. I don’t want to speak on them too early.”
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Further details on the Blue-White Game have yet to be released. Beaver Stadium is currently in the midst of its $700 million renovation, which included the demolition of the press box on the west side of the stadium.
The Blue-White Game will also be the first public football event conducted at the stadium since it became “West Shore Home Field at Beaver Stadium” in a naming rights deal earlier this month.
No matter what form the Blue-White Game takes, it’ll offer a preview of the 2025 Nittany Lions. This offseason, the expectations for Penn State have risen following the team’s run to the College Football Playoff semifinals and the subsequent retention of some key players across the roster.
Quarterback Drew Allar, running backs Nick Singleton and Kaytron Allen, offensive lineman Nick Dawkins, defensive tackle Zane Durant, defensive end Dani Dennis-Sutton and safety Zakee Wheatley are among the notable names that had the option to move to the NFL but elected to return for the 2025 season.
Franklin also made a splash when he hired new defensive coordinator Jim Knowles away from Ohio State, while offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki after fielding some head coaching interest elsewhere during the offseason.
The 2025 Penn State season officially begins against Nevada on Aug. 30 at Beaver Stadium.
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