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

In line with the 12-team playoff's historic nature, the CFP semifinals feature a matchup that will guarantee more history in the national championship game.

Among the headline speakers in the series of Zoom meetings that summer was James Franklin ... That Super Bowl matched Lovie Smith against Tony Dungy, the first meeting of Black head coaches ...

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 ...

Tony Dungy's name remains one of great significance ... the lower level from the upper level inside Raymond James Stadium Dungy was the head coach of the Buccaneers from 1996-2001.

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.

Here's a closer look at how Notre Dame's Marcus Freeman is the first Black coach to make the college football national championship game

NFL Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy is on a mission to advocate for the fatherless. Per Fox News Digital, Dungy “drew blowback nearly three years ago with comments he made about young African American men in prison and fatherlessness. Dungy’s comments ...