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(Editor’s Note: Sports Capital Journalism Program graduate students Cort Street and Chris Schumerth are covering the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl after covering Notre Dame’s first-round victory over Indiana. Here are their predictions.) When watching the film on Georgia and Notre Dame over the course of the 2024 season, one word …

By Chris Schumerth | @ChrisSchumerth Sports Capital Journalism Program NEW ORLEANS – Not too long ago the prospect of Notre Dame playing in a College Football Playoff Quarterfinal appeared to be the stuff of fantasy. Look no further than the Week 2 loss at home to Northern Illinois and the role played by quarterback Riley …

By Cort Street | @cort_street Sports Capital Journalism Program NEW ORLEANS – A lot has changed in college football since Georgia head coach Kirby Smart last lifted the national championship trophy in California following the Bulldogs’ undefeated 2022 season. The transfer portal has created a type of free agency for athletes in college football; Name, …

By Chris Schumerth Sports Capital Journalism Program NEW ORLEANS—Injuries and their consequences are a fact of football. But not all injuries are created equal. So far during the 2024 season, Notre Dame—and especially its defense—has been a model for the mantra “Next Man Up.” Even so, the Fighting Irish will enter their College Football Playoff …

By Cort Street | @cort_street Sports Capital Journalism Program NEW ORLEANS — Gunner Stockton was all smiles as he faced the media before the Bulldogs’ College Football Playoff Quarterfinal in the Allstate Sugar Bowl. To the onlooker, it would be easy to assume he did not have a care in the world, that he was …

By Chris Schumerth Sports Capital Journalism Program SOUTH BEND – It did not seem like an accident that Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard appeared at the post-game press conference in a Jeremiyah Love T-shirt after the Irish beat an upstart Indiana team, 27-17, in the inaugural first-round game of the expanded College Football Playoff. “I’ve …

By Cort Street | @cort_street Sports Capital Journalism Program SOUTH BEND – No other result would have been sufficient. There was no arrogance to the processional as the No. 7 Notre Dame Fighting Irish trotted off the field following a 27-17 victory over the No. 10 Indiana Hoosiers. There was, more noticeably, an air of …

My paternal grandfather, a Notre Dame graduate, lived out his life in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, as a high school football coach who won several state championships. He was Catholic, though my own father didn’t pass it on to my siblings and me. My mother is from just north of Pittsburgh, and when my parents tired of …

Reporters and photographers wait patiently in a hotel ballroom as the press conference is about to start. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh and Washington coach Kalen DeBoer enter the room and take their seats, sitting on either side of the College Football Playoff Championship trophy that sits in the middle of the stage. The interviews begin. …

By Andrew Thomison | @Andrew_Thomison Sports Capital Journalism Program HOUSTON – True to the end of a season that became perfect forever, the Michigan Wolverines led from start to finish in a 34-13 victory over the Washington Huskies to win the school’s 12th national championship, the first since 1997 and their first outright title since …