Either Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman or Penn State’s James Franklin will become the first Black coach to compete for a college football national championship.

James Franklin of Penn State and Marcus Freeman of Notre Dame will face off in the Orange Bowl. The winner will be the first Black coach to guide a team to a College Football Playoff final.

Franklin noted the 2007 Super Bowl between the Chicago Bears and Indianapolis Colts as a noteworthy moment ... “It gives people like me the motivation that I can be the next Marcus Freeman or James Franklin. You want to be part of this movement, to ...

The Chicago Bears have been the busiest team in the NFL through the first week or so of the 2025 head coaching cycle. General manager Ryan Poles has a wish list of candidates that's so big it's ...

A youth movement takes hold among college football coaches, and Notre Dame's Marcus Freeman is the handsome face of this millennial moment.

The Chicago Bears are casting an oddly wide net in the hunt for their next head coach, creating an interviewee list that, as of this writing, sits in the neighborhood of 20. For the sake of ...

Coach Marcus Freeman and Coach James Franklin met with the media ahead of their matchup tomorrow night in the Orange Bowl

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 ...

Franklin noted the 2007 Super Bowl between the Chicago Bears and Indianapolis Colts as ... that I can be the next Marcus Freeman or James Franklin. You want to be part of this movement, to be ...

The winning coach of Thursday’s national semifinal in the Orange Bowl — either Penn State’s James Franklin or Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman — will have a chance to become the first Black ...

Before their teams square off in the Orange Bowl, Penn State head coach James Franklin admitted Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman is living his follicle fantasy. During a Wednesday, January 8, press conference ahead of the game on Thursday night,

As the Chicago Bears get another head coaching search underway, they find themselves as the subject of some unexpected scrutiny, courtesy of the NFL. According