Penn State is now 4-20 against Top 10 opponents under head coach James Franklin after the Nittany Lions fell 27-24 to Notre Dame in the College

The Nittany Lions were consistently in the upper echelon of the Big Ten throughout head coach James ... At $8.5 million per year, Franklin is just ahead of Oregon's Dan Lanning.

James Geoffrey Franklin is an American football coach and ... Georgia, Ohio State, and Oregon. He became the first African-American head coach to win a Big Ten Championship following Penn State ...

This season, the Nittany Lions lost single-possession games to three such teams — Ohio State, Oregon and Notre Dame. Franklin's 34-8 over the last four seasons and has six double-digit win seasons at Penn State since taking over, but being one of the Big Ten's most reliable quality teams is rarely mentioned.

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 that prospect before the season.

Some followup notes from the 2024 season while looking ahead at 2025: n This week has proven, once again, James Franklin is better off the field than he is on it. Fresh from another come-from-ahead loss in a big game,

Penn State plays Notre Dame Thursday night in the Orange Bowl in one of the two College Football Playoff semifinals.

James Franklin thinks back to Super Bowl 41 ... season with its two losses both coming to teams who also made the postseason field in Ohio State and Oregon, the latter coming in the Big Ten Championship Game. The Nittany Lions beat No. 11 SMU 38-10 ...

Jim Harbaugh performed woefully bad in the postseason before winning the national championship. You don’t win the big game until you do. Michigan’s khaki king never won a College Football Playoff game until he burned his blaze of victories last season, not stopping before he’d left for the NFL.

While discussing the opportunity that awaits Penn State in the College Football Playoff, coach James Franklin said Wednesday ... game against No. 1 Oregon, which defeated the Nittany Lions 45-37 ...

Before his Nittany Lions take on the Fighting Irish for a spot in the national title game, Penn State head coach James Franklin was blunt ... where they lost to the Oregon Ducks, who were named ...

Some followup notes from the 2024 season while looking ahead at 2025: This week has proven, once again, James Franklin is better off the field than he is on it. Fresh from another come-from-ahead loss in a big game,