It's a new year, a new decade, a new semester, and a new season of Podward State, the official podcast of Onward State! Matt and Matt are back with a recap of everything that happened at State College while you were away for winter break. Then, they are joined by staff writer Mitch Stewart for Penn State basketball talk and senior editor Mikey Mandarino for Penn State hockey talk.

Podward State Episode 8! Matt and Matt are rhyming and chiming in on a bunch of topics this episode including the ending of the 2019 Penn State football season, Penn State's women's volleyball, a farewell to the Qdoba on College Ave, and the breakdown of the best chairs on campus.

After two weeks of radio silence, Matt and Matt are back with a whole slew of fun segments, including: Indiana football recap, Ohio State football preview, men's hockey talk, best chairs on campus, bringing Jimmy Fallon to Penn State, and more!

PACKED show this week. Matt and Matt discuss the new NCAA Pay For Play laws, talk football with sports editor Will Pegler and staff writer Mitch Stewart, give a bye week college football guide. Then, Mitch and Will return to talk Men's Basketball, and visual staffer and State College local Sam Brungo comes on to talk about the possibility of Allen Street becoming pedestrian-only. Next Women's Basketball beat writers Hope Damato and Rory Pelella join the pod to discuss the upcoming season. Finally, contributors Sarah Baumann and Alysa Rubin join the pod to discuss their debate that had all of University Park buzzing: Which side of the library is the front?

On this episode of Podward State, Matt and Matt recap Penn State's appearance on HBO's "24/7 College Football" series, are joined by Onward State sports editor Mikey Mandarino and staff writer Mitch Stewart to recap Penn State's nailbiter against Iowa and preview Penn State's White Out clash against Michigan. Then, Matt and Matt are joined by Onward State managing editor Anthony Colucci to discuss Onward State's new student ticket exchange. Lastly, we are joined by Penn State astrophysics professor Dr. Jason Wright to discuss his research studying exoplanets and habitable worlds as well as his plans to bring the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence to Penn State.

On this week's packed episode, we talk about Penn State football's homecoming win over Purdue, make predictions for the game at Iowa, preview the men's basketball team, rank the best (and worse) places to take grad photos in the fall foliage, and we respond to the discriminatory letter that Jonathan Sutherland received this week.

On Episode Three of Podward State, we talk about Penn State football's win over Maryland, the importance of diagonal paths on campus, preview the season for the men's hockey team, and break down how the Fair Pay for Play Law might affect Penn State.

This week's episode features a preview of the Maryland game, Penn State women's soccer talk, a Roots review, and we'll talk about State College being named best College Town and Drunkest Town in the commonwealth of PA.