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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 ↗Dennis Franchione, the longtime college football coach who turned around TCU before stints at Alabama and Texas A&M, has died. He was 75.
Dennis Franchione is best remembered by Lobos fans for recruiting Brian Urlacher, and led UNM to one of the best seasons in school history in 1997.
FORT WORTH, Texas — Former Alabama and Texas A&M head football coach Dennis Franchione has died. Franchione had been battling cancer. He was 75. Franchione began his career as an assistant coach at Kansas State, and then worked at four lower-level schools before spending more than 20 years as an FBS head coach. He had…