Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman Becomes First Black Head Coach To Reach College Football National Championship

Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman Becomes First Black Head Coach To Reach College Football National Championship

Marcus Freeman is making history.

The third-year head coach of Notre Dame led the Fighting Irish to their first College Football Playoff National Championship appearance since 2012, securing a 27-24 victory over Penn State in the 2025 Orange Bowl semifinal. Freeman has now become the first Black head coach to lead a team to a Division I college football national title game, per CBS Sports.

In a post-game interview with ESPN, Marcus Freeman, who is Black and Asian, shared,

“I’ve said this before: I don’t ever want to take attention away from the team. It is an honor, and I hope all coaches — minorities, Black, Asian, white, it doesn’t matter, great people — continue to get opportunities to lead young men like this. But this ain’t about me. This is about us. We’re going to celebrate what we’ve done because it’s so special.”

 

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