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

History will be made for the winning coach when Penn State and Notre Dame play on Thursday at the Orange Bowl. Freeman or Franklin will become the first Black coach in the title game.

Quite possibly a defining moment, so to speak, that coach James Franklin couldn't help but talk about after this 38-10 CFP-opening demolition of the SMU Mustangs was finished in Beaver Stadium.

Penn State head coach James Franklin made a couple of dumb decisions during Saturday's game against SMU. He first tried to go for it on 4th & 13 from SMU's 19-yard line, well within field goal ...

The Nittany Lions were consistently in the upper echelon of the Big Ten throughout head coach James Franklin's first 10 seasons (which coincided with the first 10 years of the playoff era), but ...