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.

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

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Marcus Freeman appears determined to make this not about himself, but when one is in the process of achieving something unprecedented, that's even more difficult than conjuring a gameplan to defeat the 2024 Ohio State Buckeyes on the 20 th day of 2025.

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“Today's Black coach is the ‘70’s Black quarterback,” Rod Broadway, who coached at historically Black universities Grambling State and North Carolina A&T, said about the once-rare sight of an African-American playing the sport's most important position.