Franklin nearly took the Nittany Lions to the national championship game last season (Penn State lost to Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff semifinals). Less than a year later, he's out at ...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — From the day he was hired more than a decade ago, James Franklin stressed the importance of creating a family atmosphere at Penn State. Over the course of 11-plus seasons in Happy ...

(CNN) — Long time Penn State head coach James Franklin has been fired after the Nittany Lions’ poor start to the season, the school announced Sunday. Franklin has been the head coach of Penn State’s ...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — From the day he was hired more than a decade ago, James Franklin stressed the importance of creating a family atmosphere at Penn State. Over the course of 11-plus seasons in ...

On his weekly appearance on College Gameday, ESPN reporter Pete Thamel reported that James Franklin and Virginia Tech share a “mutual interest” and are in the “early stages” of talks that would make ...

Penn State's season was already in free fall long before James Franklin resurfaced at Virginia Tech. A year removed from a ...