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 ...

As James Franklin prepares for the Orange Bowl, the Nittany Lions head coach reflected on how two Black head coaches can impact the future.

The winner of Thursday's semifinal will become the first Black head coach to advance its team to a national title game.

Adam Breneman, the former Penn State tight end and CBS Sports analyst, says James Franklin is in position to write a storybook ending.

Three years ago, James Franklin made it clear that change needed to happen ... one of six black head coaches in the sport then in 2007. When Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts and Lovie Smith of the Chicago Bears met in Super Bowl XLI that year, they ...

It's a guarantee, something unfamiliar to Black men across the country seeking opportunities to achieve what Marcus Freeman did at 35 and James Franklin ... like when Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith ...

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 ...

Would a victory in the Capital One Orange Bowl validate the James Franklin era at ... On Monday, Franklin recalled watching Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith in Super XLI Bowl after the 2006 season ...

Black college football coaches share what it means to see a Black coach contend for the national title for the first time.

The winning coach of Thursday's national semifinal in the Orange Bowl — either Penn State's James ... after Tony Dungy broke the same barrier in the NFL (in the same stadium where Franklin ...

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 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,