Notre Dame needed to claim a No. 8 seed or higher to host a first-round game at Notre Dame Stadium, where they are 14-4 in the past three seasons under Freeman. Those losses have come by a combined 12 points, but they include stumbles against heavy underdogs Marshall, Stanford and NIU.

“College GameDay” last came to South Bend a season ago. That was before the Irish infamously had only 10 men on the field on the play that caused them to lose in gut-wrenching fashion to Ohio State. Hopefully, the Irish fans who gather on the Library Lawn this time around will be a lot happier after this upcoming appearance.

PM ET inside Notre Dame Stadium. Notre Dame was No. 4 in the playoff rankings a week ago but fell to No. 5 this week due to G

Indiana will be well-represented in the chase for the national championship, with the Hoosiers and Irish facing off against one another.

Notre Dame has two more Saturdays until they play in their first playoff game, presumably at home. For many Irish fans, myself included, this seemed like a far fetched dream after the devastating home loss to Northern Illinois on September 7.

After months of relentless speculation about the new 12-team College Football Playoff — the comings, the goings, the head-to-head clashes galore — we finally have a bracket.

No. 10 Indiana and No. 7 Notre Dame will face off in the first round of the College Football Playoff. Here’s how much tickets are and how Hoosiers fans can buy them.

The Indiana vs. Notre Dame matchup in the first round of the College Football Playoff is the most expensive ticket on StubHub, but it’s Tennessee vs.

The bigness of Notre Dame's home College Football Playoff game against Indiana can't be understated. The seventh-seeded Fighting Irish host the 10th-seeded Hoosiers in the first-ever College Football Playoff game to be played on a college campus.