{"id":458141,"date":"2026-10-06T16:24:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458141\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:24:35","slug":"dennis-franchione-dies-at-75-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/458141\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Franchione dies at 75 \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former TCU and Texas A&amp;M head coach Dennis Franchione has died, his family confirmed to The Dallas Morning News. He was 75 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Franchione was hired by TCU in 1998, a season after the Horned Frogs went 1-10, and would immediately help turn the program around. <\/p>\n<p>TCU went 7-5 in Franchione&#8217;s first season, winning the Sun Bowl over USC, before going 8-4 in 1999 and 10-1 in 2000. He then accepted the head coaching position at Alabama, opening the door for the Gary Patterson era in Fort Worth. <\/p>\n<p>Franchione spent two seasons leading the Crimson Tide before replacing R.C. Slocum at Texas A&amp;M. Over the next five seasons, Franchione went 32-28 leading the Aggies and took Texas A&amp;M to the 2005 Cotton Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>TCU released the following statement: Coach Franchione left a lasting mark on TCU. In three seasons, he ushered in a new era for TCU football and helped lay the foundation for the decades of athletics success that followed. He was respected for developing talented student-athletes into champions. We are grateful for his many contributions to TCU and the Horned Frog community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/college-sports\/sports\/tcu-horned-frogs\/article\/former-tcu-texas-a-m-head-coach-22464784.php\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read more on this report from our partners at The Dallas Morning News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former TCU and Texas A&amp;M head coach Dennis Franchione has died, his family confirmed to The Dallas Morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,853],"class_list":["post-458141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-tcu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}