SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Matt Millen was the Penn State MVP of the 1977 Fiesta Bowl when he made 18 tackles in a 42-30 victory over Arizona State. Forty-seven years later, Millen is back in the Phoenix area covering Tuesday night’s College Football Playoff quarterfinal between the Nittany Lions and Boise State for the Big Ten Network.

The challenges that would await a commissioner would be plentiful in a new era that the NCAA has struggled to navigate.

Penn State coach James Franklin says with the new landscape of NIL and the transfer portal, college football needs a commissioner and the man for that job is Nick Saban.

It has been a time of upheaval in college football the past few years, and Penn State head coach James Franklin would like a legend of the sport to