Smith will lead the Nittany Lions in the Pinstripe Bowl vs. Clemson as Campbell works on building a staff and roster.

Smith will return to an assistant role after being the team’s interim head coach after James Franklin was fired.

Facing a brutal second-half schedule, Terry Smith took over as PSU's interim head coach and led the Lions to a 3-3 record and a spot in the Pinstripe Bowl.

Terry Smith wasn’t hesitant about staying on the Penn State football coaching staff, especially after agreeing to a lucrative four-year contract and learning he’d be working for Matt Campbell. They’ve known each other since 2011 when Campbell was the 32-year-old head coach at Toledo and Smith was the head coach at Gateway High School in Pittsburgh.

Terry Smith knows he did not have to stay. He also knows exactly why he did. “Yeah, my love for the university,” Smith said at the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl press conference. “I have expressed that time after time.

Penn State interim head coach Terry Smith is reportedly garnering support for a promotion. According to Pete Nakos of On3.com, "top-level Penn State donors are pushing" for athletic director Pat Kraft to promote Smith to the full-time head coaching position.

It took Penn State athletic director Pat Kraft 54 days to find a new football coach. When the search finally ended, Kraft found one of the promising up-and-comers of the college football world in Iowa State’s Matt Campbell.

Terry Smith’s tenure as the Nittany Lions’ interim coach has been “the greatest seven weeks of my coaching career,” and he hopes it can end with a victory over Clemson in the Dec. 27 Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium.

With outside interesting growing for Terry Smith, Micah Parsons makes a request regarding the Penn State football team and the coach.

This might be the last game Smith is in his current position, but experience has shown him that he's built for the responsibility.

Nearly two months after firing James Franklin, Penn State's coaching search has evolved into one of the most chaotic hiring processes in program history. During that time, the landscape has shifted dramatically.