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

Will Howard is two wins away from leading Ohio State to its first College Football Playoff national championship ... State starting quarterback Skylar Thompson, who was injured.

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

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.

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Just two teams are left standing with a shot at the College Football Playoff National Championship as the inaugural 12-team tournament has reached the finish line. No. 7 seed Notre Dame is set to take on No.

After all the anticipation throughout the season, the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff is ready to reach its conclusion. It's been a whirlwind season filled with memorable moments, but now that the dust has settled,

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.

Notre Dame and Ohio State are competing Monday to wrest the throne of national champs from the Michigan Wolverines, a familiar foe for both teams.