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Franklin struggled to develop top talent at key positions like quarterback and wide receiver.

Frequent changes and issues with hiring offensive coordinators led to inconsistent offensive performance.

The program's failures were magnified by consistent losses to Big Ten rival Ohio State.

To say that James Franklin was fired by Penn State for his inability to win games against elite competition is to state the obvious.

In the end, that’s the demise of nearly every Power Four coach. For Franklin, failures in matchups against Ohio State, Oregon and others eventually overwrote his underappreciated work rebuilding the Nittany Lions into a national heavyweight from the depths of the Jerry Sandusky scandal and ensuing NCAA penalties .

That’s the story of his tenur

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