New Penn State football coach Matt Campbell arrived in State College with his family on Sunday and will be introduced today.

His former program, however, is already feeling the void of his departure.

Iowa State announced Sunday it is declining to participate in a bowl, a move that will cost the school $500,000, according to Big 12 rules.

Athletic director Jamie Pollard released a statement saying “the administration and coaching staff respect and support the players’ decision.”

Bowl projections had the Cyclones (8-4) as candidates for the Liberty Bowl (Memphis), Texas Bowl (Houston) and Independence Bowl (Shreveport).

On Friday night, after Campbell’s move was announced, Pollard couldn’t say enough about his former coach.

Campbell inherited the losingest program in the Big Ten and made the Cyclones a consistent winner, going 72-55 in 10 seasons.

That stretch included two appearances in the Big 12 championship game, a 3-2 record in his last five games against both Oklahoma and Texas and a 4-6 mark against Top 10 teams.

Pollard fought back tears in addressing the media.

“Iowa State University needs to put a statue of Matt Campbell up at some time in the future because he’s done more for Iowa State football than anybody ever has,” Pollard, who hired Campbell in 2015, said. “Matt Campbell owes Iowa State nothing because he did more than we could have ever — ever –dreamed as our head coach.”

Penn State is doubling Campbell’s salary from $5 million to $10 million annually, along with allocating $30 million for players in NIL compensation — at least $10 million more than the Cyclones.

Pollard said he did not attempt to boost Campbell’s salary because “from the get-go, Matt made it abundantly clear it wasn’t about that.”

Campbell is a native of Massillon, Ohio, and the move gives him a chance to get closer to home. His mother and mother-in-law are experiencing health struggles, and his oldest daughter is set to begin college in Washington D.C.

“This was a personal decision to go (closer to) home,” Pollard said.

Pollard quickly replaced Campbell by appointing Jimmy Rogers, who coached Washington State this past season after leading South Dakota State to the 2023 FCS championship.

“I had to run a parallel process because I’ve got a responsibility to the young men in that room, to Iowa State and to our fan base,” he said.

Due to the transfer portal, Iowa State players are eligible to follow Campbell – just as some Penn State players may follow James Franklin to Virginia Tech.

“I’m not naive to think the whole roster is going to stay here,” Pollard said. “It’s just the way it is. They (players) are young, and they just got a whole bunch thrown at them. They’re sitting all day wondering if a coach they loved was going to be here, and they got a double surprise (with a new coach), and I’m sure that’s really hard … They didn’t have an opportunity to fully mourn, but there’s no uncertainty now. We’re not going to spend a week wondering.”

Pollard wished Campbell well — “I want to see him be successful at Penn State,” he said — and can only hope the next 10 years will be as kind to the Cyclones as the last decade.

“A page turns,” he said. “The sun will come up in the east, like it does every morning, and we’ll go on. I’m proud of the fact that we hired somebody that probably back then nobody thought he could do what he did. I can’t say I did. I’d be lying if I said we’d be in two Big 12 championship games and 22 of our 23 sellouts are under his leadership. I was here when it wasn’t like that.”