MIAMI -- Penn State coach James Franklin knew he was in trouble when his phone rang.
Only a few days passed between Franklin's unsolicited nomination of retired coach Nick Saban as the first ever commissioner of college football, a nomination Franklin was pretty sure the national title-collecting elder in Alabama would ultimately punt.
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