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(Editor’s Note: Sports Capital Journalism Program graduate students Jeffery Green and Cort Street are covering the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl between Penn State and Notre Dame. Here are their predictions.) These teams are very similar in a lot of ways. In the 91st Capital One Orange Bowl, we will …

By Cort Street | @cort_street Sports Capital Journalism Program DANIA BEACH, Fla. – In a college football season that has become synonymous with uncertainty and change, the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl has provided a matchup that is rooted in history. The Penn State Nittany Lions and the Notre Dame …

By Jeffery Green | @Jeffery_AGreen Sports Capital Journalism Program DANIA BEACH, Fla. — “Nobody feels 100% right now,” Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman said Wednesday morning, describing the state of his players near the end of the longest season. Heading into the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl, Notre Dame and …

By Chris Schumerth | @ChrisSchumerth Sports Capital Journalism Program NEW ORLEANS – The 54 seconds that changed the postseason perception of Notre Dame football Thursday in the Allstate Sugar Bowl was orchestrated by players in each phase of the game that began their college careers on other campuses. A series of sudden, decisive moments separated …

By Cort Street Sports Capital Journalism Program | @cort_street NEW ORLEANS – Decades of postseason disappointment had become synonymous with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program. Nearly a decade of championship culture was the identity of the Georgia Bulldogs. But under the lights of the Caesars Superdome in the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at …

By Chris Schumerth | @ChrisSchumerth Sports Capital Journalism Program NEW ORLEANS – For all the crushing disappointment that Nicole Massier and her husband Mark experienced when they had to leave town before Notre Dame met Georgia in the Allstate Sugar Bowl, there was the surprising discovery that they were not alone. Herschel Walker was on …

The future is uncertain. One by one, Notre Dame football players said those words as I slipped in and out of different conversations on Media Day, preparing for the now-postponed Allstate Sugar Bowl, the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal between the Fighting Irish and the Georgia Bulldogs. They shared a belief the team, led by coach …

By Cort Street | @cort_street Sports Capital Journalism Program NEW ORLEANS – The 91st Allstate Sugar Bowl between Georgia and Notre Dame was postponed until 3 p.m. Central time on Thursday after an attack in the French Quarter that killed 14 people and injured 30 early Wednesday morning. The FBI said the attack was being …