James Franklin thinks back to Super Bowl 41. It was Tony Dungy’s Indianapolis Colts against Lovie Smith’s Chicago Bears, a game the Colts won 29-17 on Feb. 4, 2007. “The first Super Bowl featuring a Black head coach at all, let alone two,” Franklin ...
Adam Breneman, the former Penn State tight end and CBS Sports analyst, says James Franklin is in position to write a storybook ending.
James Franklin thinks back to Super Bowl 41. It was Tony Dungy’s Indianapolis Colts against Lovie Smith’s Chicago Bears, a game the Colts won 29-17 on Feb. 4, 2007. “The first Super Bowl ...
Black college football coaches share what it means to see a Black coach contend for the national title for the first time.
A youth movement takes hold among college football coaches, and Notre Dame's Marcus Freeman is the handsome face of this millennial moment.
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Here's a closer look at how Notre Dame's Marcus Freeman is the first Black coach to make the college football national championship game
Local observers tout the impact of the first Black/Asian American coach to reach the national champs. Coach Freeman points attention back to his team.
Atlanta -- which means Freeman will make history on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and in King's hometown. There is a duality about Freeman being the head coach at any program, much less the bluest of blue bloods.
The desire to run it back in 2025 will set high expectations — the highest of any of James Franklin's Penn State teams.
The win makes Freeman the first Black coach to lead a team into the FBS title game, which is set to kick off on Monday, January 20 in Atlanta, Georgia. Freeman, whose father is Black and mother is South Korean,