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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 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 …

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 …

The women’s Final Four in Tampa Bay was a weekend full of intense basketball that saw the team widely considered the best in the country, Baylor, walk away as national champions. All three games over the weekend were full of exhilarating moments, comebacks and heartbreaks. Throughout the weekend, one thing stood out to me more …

By Robby General and Josh Roller | @rgeneraljr @Roller_01 SAN JOSE, Calif. – For the third time in four years, Alabama and Clemson will meet in the College Football Playoff National Championship game. The teams split their previous two championship meetings, with Alabama winning in 2016 and Clemson in 2017. Alabama holds a 2-1 advantage …