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 ...

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

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.

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Local observers tout the impact of the first Black/Asian American coach to reach the national champs. Coach Freeman points attention back to his team.

OSU and OU were on the front lines of hiring black coaches in college football. No Alabama. No Georgia, Florida or Tennessee. Black head coaches have been hired at only 29 of the 68 power-conference schools.

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,