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Ahead of Notre Dame football’s appearance in the national championship, the Fighting Irish have taken time to reflect on the huge Orange Bowl victory over Penn State. For Mitch Jeter, the game-winning heroics have stayed with him. Jeter connected on a 41-yard field goal with seven seconds remaining, to give Notre Dame the 27-24 win […]

The College Football Playoff is down to the final two teams as Notre Dame and Ohio State are set up for a heavyweight clash on Jan. 20 in Atlanta for the national title. Both teams have battled through adversity of difficult games both during the regular season and in this CFP, and now they are […]

Ohio State football coach Ryan Day still wants to see improvement from his team, despite making a College Football Playoff championship game appearance. Day is pointing to one specific area that must be fixed. “There’s nobody that came back on offense and was pleased with the fact that we had those penalties,” Day said Sunday, […]

After firing Matt Eberflus midway through the season, the Chicago Bears are searching far and wide for their next head coach. Eberflus’ replacement could even end up being a national champion. The Bears have shown strong interest in Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman, via Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network. Chicago will need to […]

Notre Dame has surprised some people on its way to the College Football Playoff National Championship Game, where it will take on Ohio State. Marcus Freeman and the Fighting Irish have knocked off Indiana, Georgia and Penn State during this 12-team CFP quest, and now 60 minutes stand between them and the mountaintop. Unfortunately for […]

Notre Dame football is reaping the benefits already of making a College Football Playoff championship. The Fighting Irish are adding several transfer portal targets after defeating Penn State, per On3. Notre Dame is adding four total transfers at a variety of positions, but mostly on defense. The Fighting Irish got commitments from: Jalen Stroman, Elijah […]

In the immediate aftermath of Ohio State’s home loss to Michigan in the 2024 regular season finale, to envision that the Buckeyes would be one of the two teams in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game would’ve required a pretty active and optimistic imagination. Calls were being made for Ryan Day’s head, and just […]

It was an exciting Thursday night for the Notre Dame football team as they beat Penn State in the Orange Bowl, 27-24, as they are now in the national championship awaiting the victor of either Ohio State or Texas. After Notre Dame football running back Jeremiyah Love’s impressive game, he has made his preference in […]

Relying on college kickers is a risky endeavor, but it proved to be worth it last night for the Notre Dame football program, which defeated Penn State 27-24 after Mitch Jeter nailed a 41-yard field goal with seven seconds remaining in the College Football Playoff semifinal. Jeter’s kick, his second of the night, not only […]

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish beat the Penn State Nittany Lions 27-24 on Thursday. Their Orange Bowl victory sent the Irish to the National Championship game for the first time since 2013. While the game got off to a slow start, the fourth quarter featured 31 total points and a last-second field goal. That ending […]

Penn State stepped under the bright lights, desperate to vanquish Notre Dame and advance to the national championship. A semifinals appearance in the College Football Playoff did not vindicate its past high-stakes failures. Put simply, Thursday night’s Orange Bowl was a program-defining game, and head coach James Franklin headed into the locker room with another […]

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish defeated the Penn State Nittany Lions in the Orange Bowl, 27-24 on Thursday night. It was an absolute classic filled with drama, lead changes, and an epic finish. With the win, Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman made college football history. Freeman became the first Black head coach ever to […]

The Orange Bowl delivered a slow start, but ended in bonkers fashion. Notre Dame football and Penn State exchanged in an epic back-and-forth that hit a crescendo in the final minute. The Nittany Lions received the ball with under 50 seconds left. Drew Allar earned one more chance to will PSU into the end zone. […]

Notre Dame football is not the most glamorous team in the country. They do not possess a high-powered passing attack. This program is defined by its toughness and physicality. Those traits were on full display during a crucial touchdown against Penn State in Thursday night’s 27-24 win in the College Football Playoff Semifinals. Star running […]

The Orange Bowl held between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Penn State Nittany Lions has been a wild, back-and-forth affair. Penn State took control early, leading 10-0 and dominating the line of scrimmage. Notre Dame responded by scoring 17 unanswered for a 17-10 lead. But the Nittany Lions answered with a score and then […]

Notre Dame football trusted the arm and legs of Riley Leonard to make a College Football Playoff run. But Fighting Irish fans got their hearts to sink during the first half of the Orange Bowl. The starting quarterback sustained a massive hit against Penn State during the second quarter. But Leonard went straight to the […]

The College Football Playoff semifinals are almost here as the Orange Bowl will go down on Thursday night in Miami. The Notre Dame football team will be taking on Penn State with a spot in the national title game on the line, but the Fighting Irish are currently battling a flu bug. It sounds like […]

The College Football Playoff semifinals are almost here. We started with 12, and there are now just four teams remaining in the hunt for the national championship: five seed Texas, six seed Penn State, seven seed Notre Dame and eight seed Ohio State. The Nittany Lions and Fighting Irish will do battle first as they […]

The Orange Bowl will host Penn State Football and Notre Dame on Thursday. However, Nittany Lions head coach James Franklin has some skepticism towards the Fighting Irish. He explained to Brett McMurphy about how Notre Dame doesn’t have to play in a conference and the unfairness towards other school. “I think, again, this is no […]

Marcus Freeman and the Notre Dame football team are two wins away from claiming the program’s first national championship since 1988, but Freeman is collecting hardware before the College Football Playoff semifinals can even begin. Despite losing an early-season game vs. Northern Illinois, the Irish have been otherwise stellar. Notre Dame currently sports a 13-1 […]

Notre Dame’s star running back Jeremiyah Love, who has been battling a knee injury, is set to take the field against Penn State in the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Orange Bowl on Thursday night. Head coach Marcus Freeman provided the encouraging update during a joint press conference with Penn State coach James Franklin […]

Ahead of Thursday’s College Football Playoff semifinal against Notre Dame, Penn State head coach James Franklin has provided an important, albeit murky, update on the status of star defensive end Abdul Carter. In dealing with an upper-body injury sustained during the Fiesta Bowl quarterfinal win over Boise State, Carter is expected to be a game-time […]

Riley Leonard can expound upon his success against Penn State in the Orange Bowl.

Notre Dame football heads into the Orange Bowl against No. 4 Penn State coming off of its biggest win in decades. Head coach Marcus Freeman propelled the Fighting Irish to an impressive Sugar Bowl victory over No. 2 Georgia. This result marked the first time Notre Dame won a New Year’s Six caliber bowl game […]

The Notre Dame football team is set to take on Penn State in the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Orange Bowl on Thursday night, and it’s looking like running back Jeremiyah Love will be good to go. Love went down with a knee injury in the third quarter of the Sugar Bowl against Georgia, […]

The College Football Playoff semifinals are almost here. We started with 12, and there are now just four teams remaining in the hunt for the national championship: five seed Texas, six seed Penn State, seven seed Notre Dame and eight seed Ohio State. The Nittany Lions and Fighting Irish will do battle first as they […]

Notre Dame football relied on defense and the legs of Riley Leonard to keep their season alive on Jan. 2. The Fighting Irish are now positioned to clinch their first national championship game appearance since the 2012 season. Penn State is now on deck in the Orange Bowl, with the Nittany Lions also looking to […]

Before the 12-team College Football Playoff, Penn State was often the perennial bridesmaid, never the bride. In recent years, the Nittany Lions have frequently been on the outside looking in when it came to the four-team playoff, while their Big Ten rivals Ohio State and Michigan earned top-four spots. Now, with a win over Notre […]

Notre Dame football is itching for its first national title victory since 1988. The Fighting Irish have trusted running back Jeremiyah Love to help attempt to end the championship drought. Now, Penn State stands in the way in the College Football Playoffs at the Orange Bowl. Love and the Irish must scale the Nittany Lions […]

The College Football Playoff continues with the Orange Bowl between No. 7 Notre Dame and No. 6 Penn State. It is time to continue our college football odds series with a Notre Dame-Penn State prediction and pick. Notre Dame-Penn State Last Game – Matchup History The last matchup between Notre Dame and Penn State took […]

On Thursday, Georgia football’s season came to an end. The Bulldogs fell to Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl, with the final score being 23-10. The late-game magic that propelled Georgia in their last two games was nowhere to be found. Down by more than two scores early in the third quarter, Georgia’s attempt at […]

The narrative coming into the College Football Playoff quarterfinals at the Sugar Bowl on Thursday was that Notre Dame still couldn’t beat the big boys and knock off a traditional powerhouse. Marcus Freeman and the Irish put all of that noise to bed with a convincing 23-10 win over Georgia to advance to the semifinals. […]

During their record-setting 23-10 victory over Georgia in the Allstate Sugar Bowl, Pat McAfee gave Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard the ultimate endorsement on X. “Man… I very much underestimated how much of a DAWWWGGG Riley Leonard is,” McAfee wrote, reaching nearly 500,000 X users in three hours. As a major name in the college […]

Notre Dame football turned to more than defense to run over Georgia 23-10 in the Sugar Bowl Thursday. Head coach Marcus Freeman watched his quarterback Riley Leonard carry the team on multiple occasions. Leonard faced a barrage of pressure from the Bulldogs. Georgia bottled him to a dismal 90 passing yards. Leonard, however, became a […]

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish made history in their 23-10 win over the Georgia Bulldogs in the Sugar Bowl. The win that secured Notre Dame football a spot in the College Football Playoff Semifinals was its 13th win of the season, the first time that has been accomplished in program history. In addition to setting […]

The Notre Dame football program will play in the College Football Playoff semifinal next week after defeating the Georgia Bulldogs on Thursday, 23-10, in the Sugar Bowl. It was not always pretty, but Notre Dame did enough on both sides of the ball to exit victorious. Players were, of course, playing with heavy hearts after […]

The Georgia football team will take on Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals at the Sugar Bowl on Thursday. These two teams were supposed to meet up on Wednesday night, but the game was postponed because of the tragic attack in New Orleans on Wednesday morning. The Bulldogs have had a lot of […]

In a society such as the one we live in, where sport — and particularly football — is engrained into fabric of our culture, it’s easy to forget about everything else until everything else puts an abrupt stop to sport. One of the most unforgettable moments of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic is when the NCAA […]

The end of 2024 and the start of the new year have seen a number of fun bowl games and battles in the first iteration of the 12-team College Football Playoff. Jan. 1 was supposed to feature three postseason games with Texans vs. Arizona State, Ohio State vs. Oregon, and Notre Dame vs. Georgia on […]