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 ...

As James Franklin prepares for the Orange Bowl, the Nittany Lions head coach reflected on how two Black head coaches can impact the future.

The winner of Thursday's semifinal will become the first Black head coach to advance its team to a national title game.

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

Three years ago, James Franklin made it clear that change needed to happen ... one of six black head coaches in the sport then in 2007. When Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts and Lovie Smith of the Chicago Bears met in Super Bowl XLI that year, they ...

Notre Dame's Marcus Freeman and Penn State's James Franklin are aware they are on the brink of making ... 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.

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 ...

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 ...