To Penn State fans, James Franklin should be a hero. Penn State made the Big Ten championship game and the College Football Playoff semifinals. Any Penn State supporter would have been salivating at ...

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 ...

James Franklin has served as the head coach for Penn State Nittany Lions since 2014. Franklin played for the East Stroudsburg Warriors in the early 1990s as a quarterback and began his coaching ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. − Penn State football coach James Franklin was asked to offer his opinion on how to fix college football two days before his team plays its biggest game in years. What can be ...

James Franklin received a text from a former coaching ... During his second stint, he worked with Lee Hull and Jemal Griffin. The latter became a big part of Franklin's staff at Vanderbilt and ...

Penn State coach James Franklin was visibly frustrated when asked Monday to comment on backup quarterback Beau Pribula's departure from the program ahead of the team's playoff opener Saturday ...

Penn State football coach James Franklin has been among several figures in the college football world who have recently floated the idea that the sport should create a “commissioner” position ...

Embrace it, and then change it. “There are things that Drew and I can talk about, that maybe no one else can,” James Franklin says. Like Franklin’s 3-19 record against top 10 teams as ...

Nick Saban and Lee Corso talk on the set of ESPN College ... Don't do this,' — but I think he's the obvious choice, right?" Franklin said. Penn State meets Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl on ...