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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 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 Chris Schumerth Sports Capital Journalism Program It will be easy to forget that it was the Indiana Hoosiers that had the first opportunity to take control of the first 12-team College Football Playoff game ever played. A team that had scored more than 30 points in all but two previous games this season started …

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 …