Tom Allen understands some of the questions surrounding his decision to leave Penn State after one highly-successful season to take a seemingly lateral move as Clemson‘s new defensive coordinator.

After a successful 2024–25 campaign, Penn State is losing defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Tom Allen after just one season. The 54-year-old left State College on Monday after the ...

According to multiple reports, including one from ESPN's Pete Thamel, Penn State's Tom Allen has emerged as the front-runner for the Clemson job. The university's board of trustees has called a ...

Tom Allen stood in the Penn State football locker room after the Orange Bowl and described what he wanted the Nittany Lions to remember about their season. "That the team made history and were ...

The only coach who didn’t? “This guy,” Swinney said Wednesday, grinning toward Tom Allen, the former Indiana head coach and Penn State defensive coordinator who was officially hired as the ...

Penn State began its search for its third defensive coordinator in four seasons — and fourth in five years — Monday when news broke that Tom Allen was set to leave for Clemson after just one ...

On Wednesday afternoon, Dabo Swinney and Clemson introduced Tom Allen as the Tigers' new defensive coordinator. Swinney and Allen met with reporters for nearly an hour. Before addressing the ...

CLEMSON — The night of Jan. 14, Dabo Swinney was driving new defensive coordinator Tom Allen and his family around Clemson. They were out until 11 p.m., a full moon in the sky as they visited ...

CLEMSON, S.C. -- When Tom Allen steps into a room, he commands attention. Not with bravado, but with a presence built on years of experience, an unrelenting passion for defense, and an unwavering ...

Defensive coordinator Tom Allen is leaving Penn State after one season to take the same job at Clemson, according to several reports Monday. Allen spent the previous seven seasons at Indiana as ...

Former Penn State Nittany Lions defensive coordinator Tom Allen was named the Clemson Tigers' new defensive coordinator after leading his former team to the Orange Bowl, where they lost 27-24 to ...