Either Notre Dame's Marcus Freeman or Penn State's James Franklin will make this history. In many ways it equals another unique moment. That was when the Super Bowl featured its first Black head ...

(White coaches and other minorities were welcome as well.) Many of the most prominent Black names in the business ... of Zoom meetings that summer was James Franklin, coach of the Penn State ...

where two Black head coaches, the Nittany Lions' James Franklin and the Fighting Irish's Marcus Freeman, will stand across from each other on the sidelines. The winner of that matchup will go on ...

Penn State's James Franklin ... players are Black. There are 134 FBS programs. "I know some people will say, 'Well, that that's not a huge increase,' but it is an increase," Franklin said.

Notre Dame's Marcus Freeman and Penn State's James ... Franklin said it reminded him of Super Bowl XLI between Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith in 2007, the first Super Bowl featuring Black head coaches.

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, whose mother is of white British ...

James Franklin thinks back to Super ... “The first Super Bowl featuring a Black head coach at all, let alone two,” Franklin said. “Dungy became the first Black coach to win a Super Bowl ...

College football will see its first Black head coach guide his team to the national championship game at the highest level of the game with either Penn State's James Franklin or Notre Dame's ...