[1][2] Conlan capped his junior season at Penn State in the 1985 national championship game in the Orange Bowl against the University of Oklahoma.
The finale to his senior year was in the 1986 national championship game versus the University of Miami in the 1987 Fiesta Bowl, Conlan had eight tackles, two interceptions.
[3] On December 11, 2014, the Big Ten Network included Conlan on "The Mount Rushmore of Penn State Football", as chosen by online fan voting.
Since Conlan's retirement from the NFL, he has worked for Esmark Inc. as the company's Vice President of Commercial Real Estate.
[5] Conlan has four children, including Patrick (b.1992), a former NCAA division III college quarterback (Hobart University), son Chris (b.