The numbers tell part of the story: Freeman is 32-9 at Notre Dame, while Franklin is 101-41 at Penn State. But in locker rooms and living rooms, they're writing another story. In a sport where only 12% of head coaches are Black, Franklin and Freeman aren't just winning games — they're kicking down doors.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. − Penn State football coach James Franklin was asked how to fix college football two days before his team plays, perhaps, its biggest game in years. What can be done, the question went, to "incentivize playing for the team you're on ...
This championship game also comes with a bit of additional history. Not only is this the first iteration of a 12-team playoff, but no matter what happens, for the first time ever, a Black head coach will lead a team in the National Championship Game.
James Franklin and Boise State head coach Spencer Danielson met the media the day before their CFP quarterfinal in the Fiesta Bowl.
“There are things that Drew and I can talk about, that maybe no one else can,” James Franklin says ... top 10 game in the Fiesta Bowl College Football Playoff quarterfinal against No ...
Seventy-eight years after Penn State's football team refused to play segregated Miami, history returns to South Florida.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. − Penn State football coach James Franklin was asked how to fix college football two days before his team plays, perhaps, its biggest game in years. What can be done ...
Nick Saban had a funny response to James Franklin's recent comments on the former Alabama coach overseeing college football.
GLENDALE, Ariz. – Penn State is in college football’s Final Four. It wasn’t a clean performance, but James Franklin’s Nittany Lions were clearly the better team in the Fiesta Bowl, pulling away from Boise State for a 31-14 win at State Farm Stadium on Tuesday night.
No. 6 Penn State (13-2) controlled the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball and held Ashton Jeanty to a season-low 104 yards in Tuesday’s 31-14 Fiesta Bo