Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman or Penn State’s James Franklin will become the first Black coach to lead a team into the national title game at college football’s highest level.

Either Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman, left, or Penn State head coach James Franklin, posing with the Orange Bowl trophy on Wednesday in Dania Beach, Fla., will make history by reaching the College Football Playoff championship game. It’s taken 17 years, but college football is finally having its Super Bowl 41 moment.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In college basketball, the scene of an African American coach cutting down the nets on their way to a national title is not new, even if it is still a relative rarity.

which is more than double the schools that have a chance to play in the College Football Playoff. Basketball also had Thompson, Temple's John Chaney, Nolan Richardson and other top Black coaches ...

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In college basketball, the scene of an African American coach cutting down the nets on their way to a national title is not new, even if it is still a relative rarity. John

Penn State’s James Franklin and Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman are the first nonwhite coaches to reach the playoff semifinals. Hiring shifts suggest they won’t be the last.

The final preparations are underway in downtown Atlanta for a weekend full of fun ahead of Monday’s College Football Playoff National Championship. While the game is expected to draw 70,000 fans of the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish,

While meritocracy may be embodied on the field, it frequently isn’t on the sideline. Marcus Freeman is an exception.