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Matt Campbell

マット・キャンベル　/　まっと・きゃんべる

American head coach

November 29, 1979 (age 46)　・　Massillon, Ohio, United States

Ohio
head coach
American football coach

My Take

Matt Campbell is the kind of builder I respect more than the flashy hire. Starting as an assistant at his own alma mater, Mount Union, he climbed through Bowling Green and Toledo before spending a decade turning Iowa State into a genuine contender, and now he takes on a blue-blood program at Penn State. To me the through-line is patience and player development rather than headline-grabbing shortcuts. Coaches like Campbell prove that culture is something you compound year by year. I am curious to see whether his grind-it-out philosophy translates at a powerhouse, and I suspect it will.

Overview

Matthew Allen Campbell (born November 29, 1979) is an American college football coach who is the current head football coach at Pennsylvania State University. Campbell was head football coach at the University of Toledo from 2011 to 2015, and at Iowa State University from 2016 to 2025. Prior to that, Campbell had been an assistant at Toledo, Bowling Green, and Mount Union.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Matt Campbell
Name (Japanese): マット・キャンベル
Reading: まっと・きゃんべる
Born: November 29, 1979 (age 46)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Sagittarius / Goat
Origin: Massillon, Ohio, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: head coach / American football coach

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Perry High School
University: University of Mount Union

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Campbell%20(American%20football%20coach)

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