Story preview
Topics in this story
Continue reading on the publisher site for the full article.
Read on publisher →Austin American-Statesman
News Atlas is free and independent. If it’s useful to you, you can support it with a coffee. ☕ Buy me a coffee
Coverage
Tone
Context from Wikipedia on the organisations, people and places in this story.
American football coach (1951–2026))
Dennis Wayne Franchione was an American college football coach. He was a head coach for 27 seasons at an assortment of schools. He was at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas (1981–1982), Pittsburg State University (1985–1989), Southwest Texas State University (1990-1991), the University of New Mexico (1992–1997), Texas Christian University (1998–2000), the University of Alabama (2001–2002), Texas A&M University (2003–2007) and then back at Southwest Texas, by then known as Texas State University, from 2011 to 2015.
More on Wikipedia ↗Public university in San Marcos, Texas, US
Texas State University (TXST) is a public research university with its main campus in San Marcos, Texas, United States, with additional campuses in Round Rock, Texas, and Querétaro, Mexico. Established in 1899, the university has grown to be the seventh-largest university in Texas. Texas State University reached a record enrollment of 47,513 students for the fall 2026 semester, continuing a trend of enrollment growth over several years.
More on Wikipedia ↗
U.S. state
Alabama is a state in the Southeastern and Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area, and the 24th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states.
More on Wikipedia ↗Outlets covering it
13
in the last 3 days
First reported
3 days ago
12 outlets since
Countries
12 other outlets reported this story in the last 3 days.
Former football coach Dennis Franchione, who led Texas State during two different stints as well as Texas A&M, TCU and Alabama, died Tuesday. He was 75.
Dennis Franchione, the longtime college football coach who turned around TCU before stops at Alabama and Texas A&M, has died. He was 75.
Former Alabama coach Dennis Franchione died Tuesday at 75 after a lengthy battle with cancer.