In college basketball ... win a national title at college football's highest level. If it happens, it would mark a significant moment. Still, it would come a full generation after college hoops and 18 years after Tony Dungy broke the same barrier in ...

Thursday and Friday’s College Football Playoff semifinals have the potential to be some of the most exciting in years with Notre Dame taking on Penn State and Ohio State going to Texas to face the Longhorns.

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 line with the 12-team playoff's historic nature, the CFP semifinals feature a matchup that will guarantee more history in the national championship game.

It was Tony Dungy’s Indianapolis Colts against Lovie Smith ... in the Orange Bowl at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, it will be a College Football Playoff semifinal matchup that features two Black head coaches. The winner, in turn, will be the first Black coach ...

Leave it be. Enjoy the show. Let a good thing be a good thing. This 12-team College Football Playoff format works beautifully.

This college football season marks a year of firsts ... Howard reflected on his memories of Tony Dungy, the first Black head coach to win the Super Bowl with the Indianapolis Colts in 2007 ...

With all four teams that had a bye in the first round now eliminated, Thursday and Friday’s College Football Playoff ... makes me think of when Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith played in Super Bowl ...

This is not history-making to run from — especially considering how much more challenging it has been for coaches who aren’t white to attain elite coaching positions.

Black college football coaches share what it means to see a Black coach contend for the national title for the first time.

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.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — 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.