Jim Knowles, who just wrapped up a national championship season with the Buckeyes after his defense led the country in both ...

Jim Knowles put his feelings in a letter ... methods that extend to the use of game shows to install the defense. To put in his playbook with the Buckeyes during spring practice, he used one ...

Penn State’s defense is turning the page, and with Jim Knowles taking over as defensive ... His defensive playbook is designed to generate pressure while keeping coverage tight.

Ohio State spent the last week celebrating its first national championship since 2014, but the honeymoon abruptly changed Sunday when defensive coordinator Jim Knowles packed his playbook for the ...

Along with a veteran senior class that heads off, many of whom are heading to the NFL, the Buckeyes have seen the departures of defensive coordinator Jim ... Knowles and Ryan Day watched the ...

Unlike several teams in the playoff last season, Penn State returns a plethora of starters next fall, and coach James Franklin ... but pulling Knowles, who led the nation's best defense last ...

Jim Knowles sat down with the Columbus Dispatch ... Last year in Year 2, we moved into what I would say would be considered a top-five defense," Knowles said via Columbus Dispatch's Bill Rabinowitz.

The talent won’t necessarily be the same. Penn State’s 2025 defense isn’t going to be identical to Jim Knowles’ 2024 defense at Ohio State, although Nittany Lions fans would not mind if ...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — It's official: Penn State has hired former Ohio State coordinator Jim Knowles to run their defense. Word that the Nittany Lions had poached him away from the Buckeyes ...

The program falling short was hammered home for the Cowboys when their mentor, friend and defensive coordinator, Jim Knowles, called the Cowboys defense over to his house on an early December night.