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.

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 ...

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,

Tony Dungy's name remains one of great significance in Tampa Bay. How significant? Well, for starters, it's one of just fourteen names that can be seen displayed in large white letters along the wall that separates the lower level from the upper level inside Raymond James Stadium Dungy was the head coach of the Buccaneers from 1996-2001.

Although he’s never had a losing record, Hall-of-Fame head coach Tony Dungy thought that the Steelers could fire Tomlin. At the same time, he wouldn’t understand why they would fire him.

The Penn State Nittany Lions and head coach James Franklin undoubtedly had an amazing 2024 season. They finished 13-1 and went 8-1 in Big Ten games. They entered the College Football Playoff as ...